Re: Inclusion of translated git manpages into the packaging systems

From: Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr>
Date: Jun 11, 2019, 20:37 UTC
Message-ID: <7802960.VzbTMjdsy5@cayenne>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmuipmett.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Monday, 10 June 2019 21:15:58 CEST Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jean-Noël AVILA <jn.avila@free.fr> writes:
> 
> > I can provide an archive comprising the precompiled manpages so that

packagers

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> > don't need to mess up with po4a.
> 
> That's an interesting thing to hear---if this effort eventually
> relieves me from having to supply preformatted manpages and HTML
> docs (after all, en/C is just one more locale from your point of
> view, right?), that would be an excellent news for me ;-)

I wasn't expecting this one ;-D In fact, the translation project is different in two points:

 * Not all the sources have been copied; only sources for some manpages
 * the en version is the source for translation. It's not compiled (why 
bother? it's already done in the main repo).

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> The last-mile packagers that are directly facing end-users would be
> happy to have a place (or two) that they can pull the pre-built docs
> for these locales from, and they would not particularly care where
> exactly those places are, I think.

BTW, who is using the preformatted docs? If it's useful to anybody to have access to the compound of en + translated docs, such repo can be set up.

Please note that Johannes clearly stated that git-for-windows cannot afford more weight, so English only manpages are still required.