On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:23:20PM +0200, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: [...] > BACKLINE: The package generating scripts could be patched so that they > query the database (which could be later generated from SVN data) for > translations automatically and put them into place. Should be discussed > futher.
Consider a simple example: package foo-1.0-1 contains a xx.po file, which is not up-to-date. Its translator commits a new version to the central SVN repository, but the maintainer saw a typo in this xx.po and fixed it before uploading foo-1.0-2. Now there is a conflict between these 2 versions, how will you solve it? IMO your project is not realistic, we cannot take translated files away from maintainers's hands, so we should instead help translators to solve the conflict described above. You can have a look at http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/manpages/?cvsroot=ddp this directory is quite similar to your central SVN repository, and we resolve these conflicts manually, which is very painful. Denis
