On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:37:14AM -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> > i know that this is possible, but it is very unconvenient IMHO
> >
> > first, "cvs co -l phpdoc" would not be enough, as you'll need the
> > dbxml-, images- and perhaps howto-subdirectories, too
>
> So? cvs upd -d howto dbxml should do quite nicely.
I'm against a split into different languages. 23 MB could be handled even
with my old 14.4 kB modem. Look at the size for phpweb.
> > and not using the -d option is leading to problems whenever a new
> > subdirectory is added to the toplevel or 'en'-directory
>
> Since en/ is your main working directory you can just run cvs upd -d
> from there when you want to update or put "upd -d" in your .cvsrc file.
All the years I have used "cvs -z9 update -dP" and had no problems. With
branching and so on I have problems.
> > ok, right now this does not happen that often, but i'm also thinking
> > about
> > an improved translation infrastructure that would pull in english
> > versions at the function level instead of the extension level as we
> > have it now (we have a lot of translations that are not that up to date
> > right now, but usually this hurts due to missing functions that were
> > added after the translation and not so much due to the translated
> > parts being outdated)
>
> Having each function in a separate file? Ack..
I have discussed this with Hartmut. This is a nice idea, but there is
actually now way to split the manual into subdirectories (extensions) and
then each function in a separate file.
> > so after all i'd prefere to have the translations as seperate modules
> > in CVS
> >
> > nothing would change for those of us only working on the original
> >
> > translators would have to check out the original first as usual with
> >
> > cvs co phpdoc
> >
> > and would have to additionaly get their translation language(s) of
> > choice
> >
> > cd phpdoc
> > cvs co -d de phpdoc-de
> >
> > for example
> > (similar to what you have to do with Zend and TSRM in the php4 source)
> >
> > this is a little additional inconvenience on the initial checkout but
> > after that you don't have to worry about your cvs settings anymore
>
> I suppose if there is a really big desire for this from more than one
> person, than we could setup aliases in CVSROOT/modules for phpdoc:
>
> phpdoc -a !de !it !nl phpdoc
> phpdoc-de -d de phpdoc/de
>
> Or something like that.
I can live with the current situation. If not I'll remove some unecessary
functions to keep the manual small. rtfm() for example :)
-Egon
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