contrib translations

Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie sep 14 10:37:18 -0300 2012:

Someone asked me about translations for pg_upgrade, and I don't see 'po'
directories for any of the contrib tools. Do we not translate contrib
stuff? Why?

We don't. I don't know the exact reason, but I know that while perusing
pg_upgrade's source recently I found several things that will need to be
changed there in order for it to be decently translatable. Some _()
were in the wrong places, there are several cases of sentences being
constructed from parts, and so on.

If we were to move it to src/bin/ then we would have to talk about
translatability. Prior to that I would think it's premature. I mean,
if we don't consider it good enough to be in src/bin/, why waste
translator time on it?

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:59:45AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie sep 14 10:37:18 -0300 2012:

Someone asked me about translations for pg_upgrade, and I don't see 'po'
directories for any of the contrib tools. Do we not translate contrib
stuff? Why?

We don't. I don't know the exact reason, but I know that while perusing
pg_upgrade's source recently I found several things that will need to be
changed there in order for it to be decently translatable. Some _()
were in the wrong places, there are several cases of sentences being
constructed from parts, and so on.

If we were to move it to src/bin/ then we would have to talk about
translatability. Prior to that I would think it's premature. I mean,
if we don't consider it good enough to be in src/bin/, why waste
translator time on it?

This was a more general question of why contrib doesn't get _any_
translations.

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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com

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On 9/14/12 10:13 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:59:45AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie sep 14 10:37:18 -0300 2012:

Someone asked me about translations for pg_upgrade, and I don't see 'po'
directories for any of the contrib tools. Do we not translate contrib
stuff? Why?

We don't. I don't know the exact reason, but I know that while perusing
pg_upgrade's source recently I found several things that will need to be
changed there in order for it to be decently translatable. Some _()
were in the wrong places, there are several cases of sentences being
constructed from parts, and so on.

If we were to move it to src/bin/ then we would have to talk about
translatability. Prior to that I would think it's premature. I mean,
if we don't consider it good enough to be in src/bin/, why waste
translator time on it?

This was a more general question of why contrib doesn't get _any_
translations.

There is no particular reason. Someone just needs to do the (small
amount of) work to set it up.

I'd be a bit worried about having about 50 modules of maybe 5 strings
each, which would considerably increase the overhead of managing the
translations. It would be better if we could set it up to have 1 (or 2
or 3) modules of about 100 strings.