Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus:
> I believe (or, if you like, "see the light") that this file needs to
> return to the locale whence it came, to make translation easier for our
> most excellent cadre of volunteers. If its contents appear in the
> PO/POT files, it's one less annoying FDP-specific step they have to
> remember or take.
As the person who put the rpm-info.xml file in the ${PRI_LANG}
directory, cough cough, I think this is a good idea ;-) When we
agreed to move this up to the document's base directory, I didn't
disagree because the translatable elements in that file are each
given their own "lang=foo" attribute.
Stupid me.
This arrangement makes it almost impossible to generate the
boilerplate texts in a locale-specific manner. Not knowning much
about the ".desktop" files and such, you know.
Even a stupid man can see through a brick wall given enough time.
> This change will require a few fairly easy changes to Makefile.common
> that will break the build of any document that does not move its
> rpm-info.xml into the ${PRI_LANG} folder. We also have to figure out a
> way to get the translated titles/translation elements into the POT
> folders, although I suspect this would be a very minor amount of work
> compared to the effort we will save our translators in the long run.
Yup, very minor.
> Comments welcome and appreciated. Silence gives consent. Absence makes
> the heart grow fonder.
You wanna take a stab at this or do you want me to? I'd recommend
that we revisit the DTD and remove all the "lang=foo" attributes to
avoid downstream confusion.
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