On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:15:29AM +0200, friedhelm betz wrote:
> Hello Hartmut and all other readers of this thread,
> Thursday, May 10, 2001, 5:03:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> 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.
>
> > i'm not talking about myself here, i know enough about CVS to do
> > all this by hand
>
> > but the average translator might not be up to that level
But I hope you can learn enough :)
> > it's not easy to find people that are up to using all the tools
> > needed to work on the manual, and everything we can do to make it
> > easier or more convenient would be a good thing IMHO
>
> > and reducing the checkout size from ~25MB to ~6MB for the pure
> > english manual and about ~10MB for a complete translation
> > with the additional benefit of faster updates could be a good start
I have checked the PHP manual on toye and it tooks only a very short time.
> i am a average translator and i am a bloody beginner in cvs.
> few weeks ago i started to help with german translation.
> at my point of view i strongly aggree to hartmut. the easier and more
> convenient the more people maybe willing and able to help with the
> translation. the point for me as ordinary translator is the
> translation itself, not the technical stuff around.
> there´s no question i am willing to deal with the basic stuff of cvs
> and getting the appropriate files from phpdoc. further on, it would be
> nice to reduce the checkout size (poor student with a modem) and i really
> don't need all the other languages i am not working on.
> a short description from a person familiar with cvs (and
> with enough time to do this) how to check out only the needed files
> could help for the problem with the checkout size.
I have also a very old modem with 14.4 kB. You can stop a checkout and use
the next day a update until you have a complete repository.
> i can say nothing about the technical background nore the performance,
> the building of the manual and so on.
> the "missing functions" problem led me to help with translation.
> solving the problem of "missing functions" in any way would be great!
Look at the functions tables from Hartmut and you can get some idea what
we are speaking. www.zugeschaut-und-mitgebaut.de/php/ oder
zend.com/phpfunc
> just the opinion from a really novice without any knowledge of the
> whole technical stuff.
Please don't split the manual into several languages. Andrei have told us
that even a novice can checkout the language he is interested in. Witthout
the root directory the manual is useless.
-Egon
PS: Dams, the en an fr manuals are ok!
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