Re: kconfig .po files in kernel tree? [Was: Documentation/HOWTO translated into Japanese]

Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-10T18:35:19Z

On Jun 10 2007 19:52, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> > Since the common language of most kernel contributors is english I
>> > personally feel that we should stick to just that one language in the
>> > tree and then perhaps keep translations on a website somewhere. So the
>> > authoritative docs stay in the tree, in english, so that as many
>> > contributors as possible can read and update them. It would then be a
>> > seperate project to generate translations and keep them updated
>> > according to what's in the tree. Perhaps we could get the kernel.org
>> > people to create an official space for that and then place a pointer
>> > to that site in Documentation/ somewhere.
>>
>> No, I think the translated files should be in the tree proper, we have
>> the space :)
>
>We once discussed about .po files for kconfig and back then
>the conclusion was not to keep them in the kernel tree.
>
>I advocated that they should stay out back then.
>But on the other hand I do not see it causing much troubles
>having scripts/kconfig/po/da.po etc araound.
>
>Any opinion about the .po files?

Like with translated doc, they might get out of date easily.

Jan
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