Hi! In a few days I will be able to annonuce a ready-to-use version of the debconf-based partitioner I am making. It uses libparted and hence I need an internationalisation of the udeb-version of libparted. Some of the functions of this library return strings in English. The caller is responcible to translate these strings using gettext and the provided mo-files.
What choices do we have? It seams difficult to use pointerize as this would require change in libparted. The other choice is gettext. The binary /usr/bin/gettext and the libraries this binary is linked to seam to me small. There must be no space-related problems here. On the other hand the approximate size of the mo-files is about two times the size of the pointerized mo-files. For example the mo-files for all languages of libparted are about 700Kb and their pointerized version is about 350Kb. I don't know if this makes a great difference. If it isn't then we can use gettext directly without any complications. If it is then libparted-i18n-udeb and other udebs relaying on gettext can contain gzipped mo-files and un-gzip only one of them in their postinst. What do you think? Should I try to make the necessary patches or at least fill wishlist bug reports against gettext and libparted? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
