On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Abhishek Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:02:43AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > > It's a fact of open source software that things are only taken > > seriously if the contributor to the project NEEDS/WANTS it. I don't > > think i18n is a huge deal to any of our developers, so this won't come > > up as a high priority for any of us. > > > > That is not to say that i18n is *unimportant*. It most certainly is > > not. But I know for a fact that it will get done much faster by > > someone who actually cares about translations. > > > > My suggestion: find someone willing to write a patch for the installer > > who actually cares about i18n. If you expect the devs to do it > > themselves, then it will get done, just not as quickly as you'd > > expect, which may end up frustrating you. > > > > The installer has a git repo here: > > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=summary > > Find someone to patch in gettext macros (see makepkg for a good > > implementation), and it will get applied very quickly. Otherwise, we > > have much more pressing matters to spend our time on (i.e. getting out > > the next ISO) > > > It's understandable, it's just over my capability to make a patch, I am not a programmer anyway, so I add a feature request in bug tracker for reminding. > > > I just saw through the makepkg script, adding gettext support seems to > be easy. I'll start work on it on the weekend. Great, thank you very much. > > > Regards, > -- > Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> > GPG 67972DOF pgpkeys.mit.edu >
