From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs i18n
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 11:22:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0aa7dad2-39b7-2ba1-b4b8-f8db8928c8c0@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zssb853.fsf@gmx.de>
Michael Albinus wrote:
> Packages with an own subdirectory (f.e., gnus, vc) should have an own
> catalog.
I'm not sure I agree.
Message catalogs are primarily of interest to translators and installers, not
programmers. Assuming we're using the gettext machinery (a pretty safe
assumption, as why reinvent the wheel?), the set of messages to be translated
will be maintained automatically: programmers shouldn't care how many catalogs
there are, or how they're updated.
Other GNU packages generally go with one large catalog, for several reasons. For
example, translators can batch their work; similar translations can be shared
more easily and reliably; and installation is simpler and a bit faster.
A few packages do have multiple catalogs. This is intended for convenience in
installation, not for convenience to developers. For example, GNU gettext has
two catalogs, one for the gettext runtime library (used by applications in
production) and one for gettext tools (used by developers when extracting or
doing translations). That way, operating systems packagers can install just the
first message catalog on systems where users are not developers.
In practice, though, this multiple-catalog approach hasn't proved to be all that
useful. Debian and Fedora both put the two gettext catalogs into one package.
Debian has a package language-pack-fr-base that contains French translations for
several core packages, including both gettext catalogs, and similarly for other
languages. Fedora includes all translations of both gettext catalogs in its
'gettext' package. So in hindsight, it seems to have been overkill for 'gettext'
to have two translation catalogs.
With this in mind, I think it unlikely that OS packagers would find it useful
for Emacs to maintain multiple message catalogs for each source subdirectory.
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2019-03-03 3:04 ` bug#34520: delete-matching-lines should report how many lines it deleted Richard Stallman
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2019-03-03 20:57 ` Emacs i18n Juri Linkov
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2019-03-10 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-10 6:14 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-10 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
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2019-03-07 22:25 ` Paul Eggert
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2019-03-06 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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