[TYPO3-translators] EM and translations download

[Kasper Skårhøj]

Hi Robert and Karsten,

If you have followed the translator list you might know that I  
changed the way language packs work in TYPO3. This is described in  
the updated Inside TYPo3 and TYPO3 Core API documents (found in CVS,  
module CoreDocs under the "typo3" project on sf).

Short introduction: A language pack is defined by being located in  
"typo3conf/l10n/[language key]/[ext.key]/[path to llXML file as in  
the extension]"

This means that translations are no longer distributed in extensions  
in the idea world! And this will work when the EM is updated to  
support this. Here are some examples:


- DISTRIBUTION: EM knows which extensions are installed and can  
(automatically) download language files. It could work like this; 1)  
scan all extensions for llXML files, 2) request a repository (simple  
http) for the corresponding file for a language and if found 3) copy  
to the language pack dir.
- CONTRIBUTION: People download an extension but it turns out that no  
translation is found on the translation repository for that  
extension. They install "llxmltranslate" and after making/adjusting  
their translation they use the EM to upload that file (I don't know  
how exactly). They have no contributed a translation.
- NO BOTTLENECKS: Translations are finally independent of their  
extensions which is a good thing.

Ad "Contribution": It is unsure how the best way is. Definitely  
everyone should have a chance to contribute very easily but maybe the  
upload server is not the download server but rather a location from  
where contributions must pass through a basic check by people from  
the translator list? Also, what if people change one label and  
someone another label? So, basically we would at best like people to  
use CVS for contribution? This is still an open question but the  
technology is as simple as it gets with the new file structure in the  
language packs: There is simply no complex overhead! Just XML files.


Robert/Karsten, what do you think? I would like to have a discussion  
about how to implement this support and I have put the translator  
list in copy, maybe you want to subscribe and we find a solution on  
the list.



- kasper

"A contribution a day keeps the fork away"
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