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