On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 02:26:21PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Argh, why the heck are we putting languages in their own dir? > Doesn't that break content-negotiation? And I just got Ardo to add > content-negot. naming into the debiandoc-sgml tools? > Only the source is in its own directory(*). The final html files are all in one directory. This was done mostly because of the large number of files in some directories that would result from having all translations together. It also means translators don't have to keep all the other translations on their machine. There is nothing wrong with having all versions together.
Remember, that was only an example makefile. Jay Treacy (*) Some files that change often or have little prose on them have all translations in the same file and are kept under the English directory. A feature of wml called slices allows individual languages to be extracted when creating the html files. The vendors page maintainer, for example, can add a new vendor and all the language versions are automatically updated. Of course, if the text at the top of the page is modified then the translators will have to update their translation.
