[Libvir] gettext i18n support for libvirt

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:27:13PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:10:01PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:05:29PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:48:11PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > Attached is an updated version of my previous patch to add gettext support
> > > > to libvirt. It should be pretty self-explanatory - basically wrapping all
> > > > strings with _(..) or gettext_noop(...)  where appropriate. I also took
> > > > the opportunity to make some of the messages more consistent with each
> > > > other.
> > > 
> > > Opps, used old skool diff format. Re-attaching as a unified diff this time...
> > 
> >   That's big, but that's needed, so ... I'm wondering about 2 things:
> >     - shouldn't this also affect the spec file ?
> >       I didn't noticed anything in the patch for libvirt.spec.in while I
> >       expected something :-)
> 
> Hmm, yes it should - I didn't notice we kept the .spec in CVS - I thought it
> was only in Fedora CVS.

  Yeah I have strange habits sometimes, but it's more informations relative
to the project which can be useful. Also allow rpmbuild -ta if you just get
the tarball.

> >     - can libvirt and virsh localizations be in separate catalogs ?
> >       somehow it feel like they should be distinct so that apps using
> >       libvirt don't have to load virsh strings too, but 1/ this may be
> >       nitpicking 2/ this may be already the case but I didn't spot it
> >       in the virsh.c patch
> 
> They're currently setup to use the same catalog since it makes the build
> system integration a hell of alot easier - the generic Makefiles installed
> by gettext all assume a single .pot file. The virsh strings are about 50%
> of the total translatable text, and the compiled .gmo file is 24 kb so we'd
> only be saving about 12 KB of memory splitting them out. This is pretty
> much just line-noise compared to 400 KB which libvirt.so comes in at.

  okay it doesn't really make sense, fine, just commit when you're ready,
I will try to push a new release soonish !

Daniel

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