On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Ain Vagula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had such a conversation in translate-devel list: > > Clytie wrote: > Splitting help files: How did your team split the large file? Did > someone just choose to break it at a certain point? What I'm really > after is is their an automated way to do this? > > Dwayne wrote: > Manually, arbitrarily. No rule. I think he actually split them by > size, e.g. into four equally-sized pieces. It makes more sense to > split them by content, but that would require someone going through > and putting in markers. > Arbitrary splits are hard to automate I'm afraid :( > > I wrote: > Big help po-files are very discouraging for translators ;) > Maybe it makes sense to split files so: when xhp-file begins with > number, then by first 6 numbers, when with letter, then by first > letter. > First 6 numbers means that every po-file will contain logically > splitted help part, first letter means nothing but makes just guide.po > files smaller. >
umm, when using 6 numbers for sorting, there will be 1500 po files... when using 5 numbers, then about 700 and including many one-liners. Even this will be overhead... ain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
