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

[Samuele Santi]

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On 11/19/2013 04:44 PM, Vitor Baptista wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> As far as I understood, whenever you run this "make-i18n" paster 
> command, it'll recompile all languages and put them on the 
> i18n_folder. So, if something changes on upstream, you can simply 
> run it again, and it should work.

Correct


> I like this approach, even though it's still a bit hacky. Ideally, 
> IMO, every time CKAN starts, it would do this process by itself 
> (looking into plugins, checking which have i18n files, and merging 
> them), so we wouldn't need to have a new paster command. But it's
> a great improvement over what we have.

Yes, this is a bit hacky, and a derivative of what I did in order to
customize create custom translations. Having a single .po aggregating
all the translations is quite handy for that purpose, but of course
the ideal thing would be to make Ckan populate the translations
catalog from plugins too..

I can do that, but first I'd like to clean up the plugin importing
thing a bit, in order to be able to use system functions in a cleaner
way (I ended up iterating entry points by myself in that paster
command, since there weren't any suitable functions to use..).

It might be worth using [stevedore] to handle all the entry-points
management & discovery thing...? I see most projects making large use
of entry points tend to use it.


[stevedore]: http://stevedore.readthedocs.org/


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Samuele Santi

Trento Rise
http://www.trentorise.eu/
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