On 5 September 2013 10:28, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Jan, > > [...] >> >> I have to ask very clearly; is the opinion of the community, that .po >> files >> is not to be considered a vital/integrated part of our source tree and >> should be moved away ? >> > > I believe they are as important as the source code. But they are not > source code! Also templates, clip art, etc. are just wonderful to have. The > more the better. They are not source code either. Having them all localized > would be a big plus though. Having all the localizable stuff not being > spread out all over the repository would be helpful IMHO. > > IIRC all the localized strings were in the source files itself. Then they > were split off into *.src file, were they were maintained until 2004. Then > the individual localizations were split off again and collected in the l10n > project. This consolidation of localizations was a good cleanup IMHO. > > Modern platforms try to split the resources and the binaries. They even > split the resources in itself, e.g. for different target resolutions. And > nobody is complaining that e.g. low-DPI targets are discriminated against. > > But I trust your assessment of the situation. Please consider the points I > made and do what you think is best.
Thanks for your trust, I will use the rest of the day to cool off, and see which solution I implement (either redo part of the work, or remove the branch). rgds jan I. > Herbert > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
