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Today I would like to present to you my proposal for a new eclass with |
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helper functions for treating localizations: l10n.eclass (see the |
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attached file or [1]). Its functionality can be used in other eclasses |
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(such as qt4-r2 and cmake-utils) as well as directly in ebuilds. |
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In order to keep the code simple, and prevent double loops and extra |
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variables (such as currently used in the media-video/smplayer ebuild), |
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I am proposing that we should add any missing long-form locales to |
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profiles/desc/linguas.desc (e.g. 'de_DE' in addition to short 'de'). |
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This also means that users may have to expand their LINGUAS setting in |
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make.conf (e.g. LINGUAS="de en" -> LINGUAS="de de_DE en en_US") to |
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cover the different variants used in packages. |
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If you have any comments, spot any mistakes, or have proposals for |
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improvement, I would love to hear it! I would especially love from |
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maintainers of complicated packages such as libreoffice-l10n, if there |
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is any additional functionality that we could include in this eclass |
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to make their job simpler. |
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1: https://gitorious.org/gentoo-qt/qt/blobs/master/eclass/l10n.eclass |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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