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

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:37:31AM +0000, Carlo Falciola 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,
> >>
> >> I just uploaded Ooo4Kids 0.5.1 on aslo:
> >>  http://activities.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/addon/4241
> >>
> >> There is an spanish version here:
> >>  http://download.ooo4kids.org/es/descargar-ooo4kids-xo-intel
> >>
> >> How to host this spanish version on aslo?  Should I make another
> >> activity, or is it possible to upload several "branches"?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any hint!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >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

not sure if GCompis has the same issue,
for now, GCompis activites on ASLO have gettext strings for all langs
(I just used activity specific strings from common .po files)

-- 
Aleksey