Re: [PATCH] dist-time translation

... (why isn't gmail obeying my "reply using From: matching the
original mail destination? grr.)

I mean, the -eventual- aim, not the short-term aim?

The talk on C++ bindings caught my eye. I'm curious about the eventual
goal with all of this stuff.

Adrian

2008/7/21 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>> So if I get this right, this is for returning different error pages
>> per negotiated language, right?
>>
>
> This particular patch is only for changes to Makefile.am at present:
>
> - building the error pages from .po when 'make dist' or 'make all' (new to
> errors/) or 'make translate' (new) are run.
> - installing the pre-translated pages on 'make install'
> - removing them on 'make uninstall'.
>
> Henriks suggestion, drags in configure.in next round.
>
> Amos
>
>>
>> 2008/7/21 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
>>>
>>> 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
>>> --
>>> Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE3 or 3.0.STABLE8
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
> Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE3 or 3.0.STABLE8
>
Received on Mon Jul 21 2008 - 13:10:10 MDT