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[Roland Illig]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hi, Roland!
> 
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 23:43 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
> 
>>Currently, all releases will be built with line numbers stripped. That's 
>>why I wanted to have the translation files available separately. Or 
>>maybe we should switch the line numbers on for releases.
> 
> If that a real problem for translators?  I would think that the time to
> download the tarball over a 14.4 kbps modem in some far part of the
> world would be much more than the time needed to run msgmerge, even on a
> genuine 386 system.

When I'm translating, I'm in most cases happy with pregenerated .po and 
.pot files. Only in case of doubt I download the tarball. And I don't 
compile a package just for translating it. I only use the line number 
information in the .po file and open the editor on that file.

Translators should have to do as little as possible for translating a 
file. Their job is translating, not installing a whole bunch of 
dependencies to generate the translation files.

> I'm fine with this if it's actually requested by the translators.
> However, I would prefer that we only keep the latest revision for every
> active branch.  I know that ibiblio.org has lots of bandwidth, but let's
> respect their free hosting of mc by not wasting their resources.

That's fine with me.

Roland