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[zigbert]

Hi all
L18L had an course with me regarding gettext. I have avoided this as much as possible, but he (I assume that it's a he) pushed it the all way through, so I simply couldn't step off..... The result is seen in pClock which uses gettext for NLS - thanks to L18L.

Now that I know how it works you might find it reasonable that I convert my tiny apps to gettext to give our translators a better working environment. I have spend the last day thinking about this, and come to a conclusion. The work is just bigger than I find inspiration to offer. Puppy is mainly a fun-project for me, and I want it to stay that way..... I already spend some hours maintaining codelines, and I don't find bugfixing to be funny only.

But that doesn't mean I don't want gettext.

If someone out there wants to help out converting apps to use gettext (like L18L did for pClock), that is no problem to fix. The only thing we need to keep track of is that you work on the latest code. And it is no problem for me if you spend some time on the work. I don't work on all apps at the same time anyway. Let's just agree what app I should stay away from.

Today I released Pmusic 2.6.4. This is a bugfix release, and I plan the next to be 2.7.0 which includes new stuff - This will take much time, and if someone wants to work on NLS, now it's a perfect time.

Most of the others apps are smaller (except Pburn), so these is probably less time consuming to work with.

The apps in the official Puppy:
- pBurn (done by rodin.s) All NLS files are converted
- pMirror (done by rodin.s)
- pTiming (done by zigbert)
- pBackup (let's stay away from this creepy code)
- pMusic (done by zigbert)
- pClock (done by L18L)
- pSchedule (done by zigbert)
- pFind (done by L18L)
- pFilesearch (done by L18L)
- pProcess (done by rodin.s)
- pEqualizer (done by zigbert)



See you around
Sigmund

[rodin.s]

I would like to try something simple like pProcess first. Maybe even some automatic script based on sed can do it: to take some lines from translation file and put them into main script with addition of necessary gettext syntax...

[zigbert]

[vicmz]

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

[rodin.s]

As for pmusic gettext script: yes, it has to be updated if pmusic translation changes. Some new lines added, old ones removed.

[vicmz]

Thank you guys. Regarding puplets I've received requests for compatibility with puplets that were built before MoManager was implemented, especially Lucid and Saluki, that was the reason of my request. I do use MoManager actively and release at least one update per month, many users are glad that you created it, BarryK. OK, after this I can focus entirely on the official langpack_es. The langpack_es official page explains which Puppy versions are compatible but doesn't include any puplets, so I'll add those you mentioned. Thank you again.

[don570]

I will be posting a new version of puppy backup
(the improved version of pmirror). It will
have a yaf-splash window to show activity.
It should be released in couple of days so I can
test it thoroughly.

So don't bother converting pmirror.

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[rodin.s]

I have added gettext to pProcess. It's MoManager compatible. File pprocess.mo will be created in MoManager after translation. I had to do some workaround sins MoManager supports only one script for one mo-file and pprocess has tree scripts with gettext. Main script is pprocess so I have added lines from two others into main script.
Maybe now I want to try pBurn as something more complex.

[zigbert]

rodin.s


I'll check it out and release a new version of pProcess
Pburn 3.7.3 is up to date and ready to go


T H A N K S . . A . . L O T
Sigmund

[zigbert]

gettext seems to work just fine in pProcess.

What I don't like is the comments at the end to sync with *.pot. I see this as a temporarily solution until MoManager supports multiple scripts for one *.mo file. For pProcess, the comments are few.... for pMusic it will be 'endless'. The worst is not extra codelines, but the fact that I have to update these comments as the app evolves. The arguments for gettext fails with this solution. We could instead use your pMusic-gettext script....

I assume that MoManager will be improved, and we continue the way towards gettext.....


Thank you
Sigmund

[L18L]

[L18L]

I am going to try converting Pfilesearch now.

[zigbert]