Re: [PATCH 0/19] Kconfig I18N completion

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Em Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Egry Gábor wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, the patch 19/19 contains the translation of configuration
> > interfaces ([x|g|menu]config) and it is only 23 kb. The full version of
> > unfinished hu.po is 2 MB and the fully translated italian it.po is 3,2
> > MB. I see Linus doesn't want the huge language files in kernel source.
> > But what is Linus opinion about this little .po file?
> 
> I don't want ANY of it in the kernel. 

Neither me.
 
> Quite frankly, I'm of the opinion that _all_ of the i18n stuff should be 
> totally outside the kernel. I took the patch from Arnaldo only because I 
> was told that me taking that patch would allow external packages to do the 
> rest. Now I'm told that isn't true, which just makes me pissed off.
> 
> _I_ think you should have a totally external package that knows how to
> parse the Kconfig files. They have a well-known format that hasn't changed
> in quite a while, and a nice parser.  Yes, there will inevitably be new
> entries that you don't have translations for, and you'll have to use the
> English ones for those, but the fact is, that is true whether the i18n
> stuff is included with the kernel or not.

Having just kxgettext as I submitted I guess is enough, the translators
just do make update-po-config and do the translations, put that somewhere
for anyone who wants to use it.
 
> And exactly _because_ it doesn't help to put the non-English translations 
> into the kernel, I think it's a mistake to even try. It's likely _easier_ 
> for all the different language groups if they can just work on their _own_ 
> project, and don't have to try to get their translations merged into the 
> standard kernel.

Exactly.

- Arnaldo