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 7F5C21F462 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:37:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2406179AbfFKUhr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:37:47 -0400 Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.2]:37376 "EHLO smtp2-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2391937AbfFKUhr (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:37:47 -0400 Received: from cayenne.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e0a:d1:f360:33e:2802:50eb:d77d]) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC2E200407; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:37:40 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DNo=EBl?= AVILA To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder , Todd Zullinger , timcharper@gmail.com Subject: Re: Inclusion of translated git manpages into the packaging systems Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:37:39 +0200 Message-ID: <7802960.VzbTMjdsy5@cayenne> In-Reply-To: References: <1979608.xhrAu3A07H@cayenne> <1835964.yutTd2aTbA@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 21:15:58 CEST Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jean-Noël AVILA writes: > > > I can provide an archive comprising the precompiled manpages so that packagers > > don't need to mess up with po4a. > > That's an interesting thing to hear---if this effort eventually > relieves me from having to supply preformatted manpages and HTML > docs (after all, en/C is just one more locale from your point of > view, right?), that would be an excellent news for me ;-) I wasn't expecting this one ;-D In fact, the translation project is different in two points: * Not all the sources have been copied; only sources for some manpages * the en version is the source for translation. It's not compiled (why bother? it's already done in the main repo). > > The last-mile packagers that are directly facing end-users would be > happy to have a place (or two) that they can pull the pre-built docs > for these locales from, and they would not particularly care where > exactly those places are, I think. BTW, who is using the preformatted docs? If it's useful to anybody to have access to the compound of en + translated docs, such repo can be set up. Please note that Johannes clearly stated that git-for-windows cannot afford more weight, so English only manpages are still required.