On Monday, 10 June 2019 19:09:54 CEST Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Jean-Noël, > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Jean-Noël AVILA wrote: > > > I took on the task of creating a project for the translation of man-pages at > > https://github.com/jnavila/git-manpages-l10n > > > > Up to now, the translations have started for 3 languages: > > > > * German (2 pages) > > * Brazilian Portuguese (6 pages) > > * French (11pages) > > Nice!!! > > > In order to provide feedback to translators, it's time to have these > > pages included with the distributions of git. Right now the process of > > compilation of the man-pages is still a bit off-tree, because it relies > > on a recent version of po4a (v0.56) which has not yet reached most > > distros. > > Maybe there is a way to skip the Makefile task when a too-old po4a is > detected, with a warning? The project is provided with a script that downloads the correct version of po4a from the root repo (this is needed for ci). I can provide an archive comprising the precompiled manpages so that packagers don't need to mess up with po4a. > > > I miss expertise in the process of packaging. Depending on the type of > > distribution, the route to packaging might differ (for Mac OS and > > Windows, maybe a direct inclusion, for Linux dists sister packages). > > That's why I need your help to correctly perform this integration. > > Historically, Git for Windows punts on translations, excluding any > non-en-US documentation (to save on bandwidth for the installer, which did > grow from <30MB to 44MB in the last four years alone). It might not be the correct argument for now, but a tgz of the manpages presently weights 230kB. > > There were a couple of motions to change that (maybe in the form of add-on > packages/installers, maybe in the form of a "full" installer), but nothing > came of it so far. If there's any chance to get this move alive, who should I refer to? Otherwise, where can an additional package be built? > > Therefore, as far as Windows is concerned, I hate to admit that my answer > is "don't worry for now, we only include US-English documentation > anyway"... :-( > > Ciao, > Dscho
