[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-tr] size of translations, use a distinct repo?

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi Werner,

Thanks for this, indeed last translation commit is indeed much smaller!!!!
Less than 1k lines while it used to be about 50k before.

Cheers,

Denis

On 29.10.2014 20:49, Werner Macho wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I added the suggestion from jef and tried the new produced ts files in
> linguist and transifex without any problems ..
> So I decided to update everything again (with strings and transifex update) ..
> ts files should now have no location inside any more ..
> I hope that shrinks down the size from now on.
>
> regards
> Werner
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Stott, James <fmrojst at fylkesmannen.no> wrote:
>> As a slight side point, according to transifex it looks like we could have 13 fully translated languages for the GUI by the time 2.6 is released (13 languages are on 99% or more). 15 languages are over 95%. This is excellent news.
>>
>> Is it something we should publise, maybe add to the visual changelog?
>>
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>> Fra: qgis-tr-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-tr-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] På vegne av Werner Macho
>> Sendt: 29. oktober 2014 14:15
>> Til: Denis Rouzaud
>> Kopi: QGIS Translation Discussions; qgis-developer
>> Emne: Re: [Qgis-tr] [Qgis-developer] size of translations, use a distinct repo?
>>
>> hmm - ok ..
>> Then I am going to give it a try without location and see if there are any problems with transifex or linguist ..
>> If not - I also think that way is perfect ..
>>
>> regards
>> Werner
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 29.10.2014 14:06, Werner Macho wrote:
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>>>> Good idea,
>>>> if its really translation that causes the growth we should do
>>>> everything to avoid that.
>>> As Jurgen noticed, there are some useless changes in the ts files:
>>>
>>>       <message>
>>> -        <location filename="../src/core/qgscontexthelp_texts.cpp"
>>> line="327"/>
>>> +        <location filename="../src/core/qgscontexthelp_texts.cpp"
>>> line="319"/>
>>>
>>> if there are lines removed/added in the source file, this will cause
>>> changes in the translation file.
>>> Jurgen suggested to remove these tags "location filename" which would
>>> improve a lot.
>>>> Is there any way to "shrink" the already existing repo?
>>>> At one point I thought about zipping the ts files - but if there is a
>>>> better way .. good!
>>>> I always wondered why the whole translations file has to be changed
>>>> whenever there are only some small changes ..
>>>> moving the translation in it's own github repository: hmm - I don't
>>>> know if thats easily possible.. but I am also willing to try it if it
>>>> helps the source code to stay clean.
>>> I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible.
>>> git submodules would be pretty useful for this matter.
>>>>
>>>> But again - anyway to shrink the already existing source code?
>>> As far as I know, you can't shrink existing repo without destroying
>>> the history.
>>>> I don't mind about loosing track of translation changes.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Werner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/29/2014 12:15 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>>>>> Hi Denis,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 29. Oct 2014 at 11:08:16 +0100, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>> I guess this is just due to the "location filename" stuff.  That
>>>>> often causes massive change in the ts files, because lines were
>>>>> added or removed from the source files - even if there isn't even a
>>>>> changed translation.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that is not used at all for transifex and it's not that
>>>>> important to have in linguist either.
>>>>>
>>>>> So instead of inventing something new, all it takes might be to add
>>>>> "-locations none" to our lupdate call, reduce the size of the .ts
>>>>> files a lot (in one huge commit) and avoid useless tracking of
>>>>> location changes in the future.
>>>>>
>>>>> Objections?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jürgen
>>>>>
>>>>>
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