[ckan-dev] Translating plugins & custom translations how-to

[Vitor Baptista]

That could be a new paster command, BTW...


2013/11/18 Vitor Baptista <vitor at vitorbaptista.com>

> Hi Samuele,
>
> That looks like the best approach, while we don't figure out a way to fix
> it on core. My Makefile skills are a bit rusty, but it feels like your plan
> was to create a way to compile many plugins' translations from a single
> Makefile, right?
>
> I wonder that, with some conventions, we can't figure out a way to develop
> a single executable file to do it. My ideal would be something like:
>
> $ setup-ckan-i18n --ckan-dir=ckan --ckanext-dir=ckan/ckanext
>
> And it'll go over ckanext-dir, looking for everything that looks like a
> .po file, compile it, and overwrite CKAN's translations. If we agree on
> following the structure "i18n/<lang-code>/LC_MESSAGES/ckan.po", that should
> work.
>
> We'll have some problems for, for example, asking for a plugin to be
> parsed before another, but I think there are many advantages for this
> approach. Mainly that we don't replicate these Makefiles in every plugin
> that needs new translation files.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> 2013/11/12 Samuele Santi <samuele.santi at trentorise.eu>
>
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>> I just figured out a way of extracting + translating strings in
>> plugins too, and building custom translations on top of that.
>>
>> While the "loading strings from plugins" part needs some care in the
>> core code, this method works as well (and it's quite handy too, by
>> using some tools to automate work).
>>
>>
>> This is the main repository, containing:
>>
>> - - A README with instructions on internationalizing extensions
>> - - A Makefile to merge together translation templates and
>>   translations from a bunch of plugins, along with the core
>> - - A i18n directory, containing my custom translations :)
>>
>> https://github.com/opendatatrentino/ckan-custom-translations
>>
>>
>> The idea is: if you need to create custom translations, just fork that
>> repository, make some changes to the configuration part of the Makefile
>> and start translating right away.
>>
>> Or you can just create a fresh project, just copy the Makefile over..
>>
>>
>> I'm adding this to the documentation too and sending a PR, but first I
>> wanted to hear some feedback.
>> Is it clear how this works? Do you need some extra information? Did
>> you have any trouble using this?
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> - --
>> Samuele Santi
>>
>> Trento Rise
>> http://www.trentorise.eu/
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