[Fwd: Translations: String freezes, CVS converging, Packaging]

[Renato Pavičić]

Dana Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:40:08 +0100, Samuel Bizien  
<samuel-bizien at club-internet.fr> napisali ste:

> Le mercredi 07 mars 2007 à 14:44 -0500, Jeremy Katz a écrit :
>> > Pros (many): increased modularity and maintenance (L10n repackages at
>> > will). App packages will be smaller in size -- we could provide
>> > one langpack or different ones per language.
>> 		
>> The size difference for most of the app packages are going to be
>> negligible.  But now, to push a new pirut with new strings, I also have
>> to coordinate the pushing of n langpack packages.  Which are each
>> significantly larger than the amount you save on the app packages.
>>
>> Jeremy
>
> As I'm one of the "pros", i'd like to add that, on an entire system,
> translations packages could (sometimes) represent 1/3 of total space
> used !
> On light systems, when I delete all unneeded translation file, I
> sometimes free more dans 1GB disk space.
>
> But this is data for the whole system. I don't know how much fedora
> tools' translation files represent. Maybe it's almost nothing. I don't
> know.
>
> Samuel.

Well, POT files come to about 3MB. My translation are about 4.2MB, so the  
translation adds about 30%. Total translated average for Fedora is 50%.  
Currently there are 83 languages. Roughly speaking, half of them are 100%,  
half are 0%.
41*4.2 MB=172MB
41*3MB=123MB
subtotal= around 300MB

never downloaded all of them, will try later on, just for fun ;)


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