[Sugar-devel] Ooo4Kids in several languages - how to let it appear on aslo?

[dfarning at sugarlabs.org]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Carlo Falciola <cfalciola at yahoo.it> wrote:
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>>On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:48, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> >wrote:
>> Hi Bastien,
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>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:27, Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
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>>> I just uploaded Ooo4Kids 0.5.1 on aslo:
>>>  http://activities.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/addon/4241
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>>> There is an spanish version here:
>>>  http://download.ooo4kids.org/es/descargar-ooo4kids-xo-intel
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>>> How to host this spanish version on aslo?  Should I make another
>>> activity, or is it possible to upload several "branches"?
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>>> Thanks for any hint!
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>> Has the OOo4Kids team considered using gettext or similar so can ship
>> a single bundle containing several localizations?
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>>Eric has told me in #sugar that the reason for this is because each
>>locale takes about 100MB when compressed. If it's not feasible to make
>>the locales smaller, then I would recommend creating different
>>activities, with different activity ids.
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>>Regards,
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>>Tomeu
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> If I remember correctly, we'd discussed similar issue back in Paris  with Bruno about Gcompris additional language packages, those packages where in the same order of magnitude in size.
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> Look a common issue for bigger (in text content) projects
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> ciao carlo
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ASLO has a rather sophisticated method of handling languages.  It might be worth looking into to possibility of adapting it to handle language specific bundles.  This would allow for a single bundle ID per activity.  Then aslo handles versions and languages.

From the user side the experience would be-- log into aslo click the activity download button -- get the right version and language.

Developers could upload and identify language specific variants of the activitie.

From aslo's pov it already keeps track of the user's sugar version and LANG as reported by the web browser.

david
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