Re: [PATCH] dist-time translation

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> mån 2008-07-21 klockan 11:44 +1200 skrev Amos Jeffries:
>>> Personally I think it's fine to add a po2html as an install time
>>> requirement, at least in trunk. The soft fallback could be a configure
>>> option to not generate translated error pages with a reference to where
>>> a tarball of translated error pages can be downloaded.
>> Okay. So how to do that cleanly and portably? I've stopped trusting /usr
>> binary lookups on this one.
>
> I meant
>
> ./configure --without-po2html
>
> with a help description explaining that translated error pages is then
> not available, but can be downloaded from http://... and installed
> manually if needed.
>
> The reason for the manual flag instead of automatic detection is to get
> the admin aware of the difference...

I see. Simple enough. Adding. For now it says squid-cache.org HEAD page.
I'll link my D/L bundle from there until squid-cache starts building its
own.

I've written things now in such a way that the language pack is
completely optional. And the errors upgrade no longer depends on this
working. Though of course, only English will be available to a bare
install without it.

I've got everything sorted and working here now and would have
submitted, but have hit another snag with bzr being to 'smart' again,
apparently Firefox is a mail agent now. :-( Yes Robert I'll be emailing
you soon if the next test fails.

Updated patch for this coming when that works. Any other specific
alteration requests?

>
>> Nice idea. Lot of extra work though.
>
> Maybe. The template stuff isn't that much work (done easier by
> annotating the English templates slightly), but not sure how well
> gettext will react on dynamic language selection.. (LC_LANGUAGE set per
> request)
>

The C++ face of it _appears_ to be much more flexible. But the only
demos I could find were for its use in iostreams.

The extra work would be in hard-coding each error pages structure and
content lookups into squid. Not the actual translations.

Amos

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