From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCA91F462 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388696AbfFJTCY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:02:24 -0400 Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.2]:45504 "EHLO smtp2-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387674AbfFJTCY (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:02:24 -0400 Received: from cayenne.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e0a:d1:f360:33e:2802:50eb:d77d]) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11F02003F6; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:02:17 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DNo=EBl?= AVILA To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder , Todd Zullinger , timcharper@gmail.com Subject: Re: Inclusion of translated git manpages into the packaging systems Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:02:17 +0200 Message-ID: <1835964.yutTd2aTbA@cayenne> In-Reply-To: References: <1979608.xhrAu3A07H@cayenne> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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