Re: Ready for 2.9.4?

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Hubert Figuière <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Given some issues with Windows that caused the build for 2.9.3 to fail,
> I'd like to release 2.9.4 soon.
>
> Are we ready for that? Can we build on Windows now?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hub

I'm not going to declare a blocker to a 2.9.4 build, but there are
some issues that it should be possible to fix or at least improve
(with a little bit more time and assistance) that would result in a
much improved Windows install experience in various languages. Maybe
this could be pushed off to a special 2.9.5 "i18n/L10n enhancement"
release, but I know you want to stop releasing 2.9.x series ASAP and
move forward.

I have noticed that most of the existing Windows installers .nsh files
(most of them three years old) have some deficiencies in their L10n,
and there are not .nsh files for many of the languages that
could/should have them.

http://abisource.com/viewvc/abiword-msvc2008/trunk/Setup/NSISv2/lang/

In order to help address this, I have parsed the Englsih.nsh (on the
assumption it was the most complete) and created a PO file in each
language AbiWord project on Pootle called
"Windows_Installer_.nsh_strings.po" that should capture the needed
strings that are missing in the various .nsh files.

I have not completed the transfer of the existing localized *.nsh file
strings to the relevant language's PO files. I would appreciate some
help from localizers in transferring their strings over if their
language is present in the lang/ directory of .nsh files mentioned
above as well as completing any untranslated or missing strings in
addition.

At present, I could envision a stopgap manual build of the .nsh files,
but it would ultimately be desirable to capture these installer PO
files in msvc and create a PERL script that would parse and compose
them on the fly to make a Windows build truly DIY. That will take a
bit longer and I think manually generated .nsh files should do for now
(after some opportunity to improve them and their L10n coverage.

I could use some help in understanding which language dictionaries
might be available now and which languages will not have available
dictionaries as well as general assistance with making sure I am
interpreting the .nsh file structure and functions properly.

I'd also like to ascertain what langs would be built in Linux 2.9.4
because I am unsure if all necessary steps have been taken to include
the additional language PO files now committed to SVN. As one
example, we need to review the language list (present in the PO file
and therefore the code) against the list of PO files now available.

I DO understand the urgency of getting a Wndows build out, I'm just
commenting that it would be a shame if this were the last 2.9.x build
and it did not contain all of localized Windows installers it could.

Regards,

cjl
Received on Tue Jun 26 20:37:13 2012