I don't know why the author of the French translation chose to have two versions. Perhaps to take advantage of a feature in V3.8?
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 7:28 AM Vetti52 <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Februar 2020 14:55:18 UTC+1 schrieb Thomas Keffer: >> >> Skins have been backwards compatible for years and rarely have a problem >> with an upgrade. There's no reason why a French skin written for V2.0 back >> in 2012 wouldn't work with V4.0. >> >> -tk >> >> > Well, in github there are two entries for the french skin. One is just a > description in french, however containing the same files as the english > entry. But there are two files in each: > > French translation of the weeWX v3.5.0 default Standard skin >> French translation of the weeWX v3.8.2 default Standard skin >> > > I did not try to get into the details of these two versions, but as, to my > knowledge, these are the only two examples which realized direct > translations, I assumed, that there may be a need to adopt translations at > least at certain Weewx version updates. > > Anyway, my experience in translating the seasons skin into German told me, > that there are a lot of places, where to edit. And I should better have > tracked all of my actions - which I didn't. Silly, I know... Any future > upgrade (e.g. when a "newSeasons-standard" skin should be appear to be > nicer and I would want to translate this also again) will make me mad when > tracing back - after several months - to figure out, where all the labels > were, and where they are now within the new skin files. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/05f2f39d-922d-4d60-a0d2-f18391d6e37a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/05f2f39d-922d-4d60-a0d2-f18391d6e37a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEDfqEywN7utbH%2BnPi9mu2-kGEi-hT8qiidS%2BovwbjxkSQ%40mail.gmail.com.
