Em Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds escreveu: > > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Egry Gábor wrote: > > > > Yes, the patch 19/19 contains the translation of configuration > > interfaces ([x|g|menu]config) and it is only 23 kb. The full version of > > unfinished hu.po is 2 MB and the fully translated italian it.po is 3,2 > > MB. I see Linus doesn't want the huge language files in kernel source. > > But what is Linus opinion about this little .po file? > > I don't want ANY of it in the kernel.
Neither me. > Quite frankly, I'm of the opinion that _all_ of the i18n stuff should be > totally outside the kernel. I took the patch from Arnaldo only because I > was told that me taking that patch would allow external packages to do the > rest. Now I'm told that isn't true, which just makes me pissed off. > > _I_ think you should have a totally external package that knows how to > parse the Kconfig files. They have a well-known format that hasn't changed > in quite a while, and a nice parser. Yes, there will inevitably be new > entries that you don't have translations for, and you'll have to use the > English ones for those, but the fact is, that is true whether the i18n > stuff is included with the kernel or not. Having just kxgettext as I submitted I guess is enough, the translators just do make update-po-config and do the translations, put that somewhere for anyone who wants to use it. > And exactly _because_ it doesn't help to put the non-English translations > into the kernel, I think it's a mistake to even try. It's likely _easier_ > for all the different language groups if they can just work on their _own_ > project, and don't have to try to get their translations merged into the > standard kernel. Exactly. - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
