Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system

GOTO Masanori
2001-12-31T08:25:55Z

At 30 Dec 2001 13:42:00 +0200,
Kai Henningsen wrote:
> But just recently I have been considering going back to the German man
> pages, because the quality has become *MUCH* better. In fact, it's now
> obvious they are fairly close translations of the English ones.

Well, I don't know the quality of German's, but I know German's have
much of localized message :) However, imagine other languages. The
quality control of localized translation can know only people who are
ready for that language. I think it's the problem.

> As for Configure.help specifically: it should be fairly easy to do a
> script which notices when the original of a translation has changed, and
> possibly either replaces it with the English version, or else does some
> other more or less intelligent thing about it.

Well, such a mechanism is also needed whenever if we have official
translation system (like DDTS - Debian Description Translation System).

-- gotom