Public availability of CVS po files

[Xavier Conde Rueda]

There used to be this page, that unfortunately is not updated any more :-( :

http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/fedora-i18n.html

2006/9/1, Dimitris Glezos <dimitris at glezos.com>:
> O/H Paul W. Frields έγραψε:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:28 +0100, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> >>> That should have been:  http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/
> >>>
> >>> The other link may "evaporate" (redirect) at some point, so no point
> >>> perpetuating it.
> >> Paul, I did look at the cvs web frontend (darn, I should write about my
> >> searches in my questions in the first place) but did not find the po
> >> files there, only some make and spec files. Either I am missing
> >> something or I don't know what.
> >>
> >> Check it out yourself, eg. for system-config-network:
> >>
> >>   * http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/system-config-network/
> >>   * http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/system-config-network/devel/
> >
> > Ah, that's because the source tarballs are all kept in a lookaside
> > cache.  Here's a quick step-by-step -- I think these are on the wiki
> > somewhere:
> >
> > $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/dist co
> > system-config-network
> > $ cd devel
> > $ make prep        # or 'make help' for some useful info
> >
> > That will download the source and do the equivalent of 'rpmbuild -bp'
> > for that package.
>
> Thanks for the tip Paul.
>
> Nevertheless, this is too much work for external contributors. Usually, they
> just need the pot & po files of all packages for a language.
>
> Three suggestions then, in decreasing preference:
>
>   1. Allow anonymous access of the `translate` module from the CVS.
>   2. Include a link to the files in the i18n statistics page.
>   3. Produce a nightly public .tgz with the pot & po files for each language.
>
> Are these too difficult to arrange?
>
> -dim
>
>
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