[bt-devel] rpm questions

[Brook Humphrey]

On Tuesday 28 May 2002 07:27 am, Martin Gruner wrote:
> I'd also like to welcome Lamar very much here. We really appreciate your
> help a lot!
>
> I want to put 2 issues for discussion:
>
> 1) I suggest that we stop compiling in sword and instead start to require
> the official sword rpm. This will avoid file conflicts in future and
> simplify our package.
>
> 2) We should reconsider the way bibletime-doc is handled. ATM it contains
> all translatable files, which includes program messages, tips and doc files
> including the helpdialog pages. As sven correctly pointed out on #sword,
> users who don't have bibletime-doc installed (est. 60% atm, judging from
> the downloads) will see 2 empty screens on the first startup (no helpdialog
> pages installed). This should not be. The main advantage for doing this was
> that it helps us with the translations, since the bibletime-doc package can
> be re-released independantly when a new translation was finished. The main
> backdraft atm is that the whole package will be re-released, not only the
> additional files.
>
> I therefore suggest the following:
> -abandon bibletime-doc
> -keep all english data in bibletime
> -introduce localized packages such as
>   bibletime-i18n-de
> which contain all localized data for de, such as program messages, tips and
> help files.

I like it and as I make sword rpm's already we can just put them up or 
something.

I whould much prefer the docs this way. 


>
> This will involve some script revision, but should be possible. Another
> issue is that the admin/ dir would be in each cvs module, which is pretty
> much (1MB each). We could also try to introduce a bibletime-common folder,
> which holds the admin/ dir and possibly other common files as well.
>
> Please comment on my suggestions. My solution would involve having quite a
> few rpms (one for each language), which is a good idea imo. The
> independance for the translators is necessary, otherwise we'll never have a
> release.
>
> Martin

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