Re: Emacs manuals translation readme

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>]

> On Feb 13, 2024, at 12:32, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:31:26 +0800
>> 
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
>> writes:
>> 
>>>> I think I have covered all the recent comments to the original proposal.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. the "lang" directory is renamed "translations"
>>>> 
>>>> → the length of the name is not really relevant since we have term
>>>> completions in Emacs
>>>> → "translations" is more indicative of the contents of the folder than
>>>> "lang"
>> 
>> `translations' doesn't conform to the 8.3 naming scheme used under
>> MS-DOS, and we only require a long file name driver for building Emacs,
>> not for running it, and certainly not for reading Info manuals.  But I
>> could well be mistaken.
> 
> Long file names will only be a problem if they cash with other file
> names in the same directory.  In this case I don't think there will be
> such a clash.
> 
> FWIW, I prefer 'lang', for more than one reason.  But I won't fight if
> others prefer 'translations'.

I prefer “translations” because the folder is clearly intended to 
receive translated documents and will only be (actively) used by 
translation teams.

But I think that’s something Stefan and you should discuss, since he is 
the one who made the proposal.