[udig-devel] Babel based extras

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Andrea; you have a lot of questions - I don't know the answer for all 
of them so we will have to do some research together:
> I'm not sure what next would be, but I guess we should start to use
> translations from the babel project. 
There are two ways to do this (for developers working on uDig trunk):
- follow the instructions for Quickstart and download 
extras-3.3.2-babel, I *think* if you use the update manager you can grab 
fresh translations every day.
- follow the instructions and use the babel update site - whenever you 
want you can hit *update* to grab fresh translations...

There are also two other things to consider:
- the usual way of doing things (ie extras-3.3.2 is also working just 
fine for now is it not? I have not heard reports of missing translations 
recently?)
- wait for the babel project to "finish" and publish the RCP nls files 
we need? Not sure when that is expected...
> If needed I could write a script that downloads (not sure if they provide a direct link thou) the
> translations and package only those that are contained in the udig sdk
> (should have some equal package name part) so we have an automation.
>   
They provide a direct link to their database dump; so we would need to 
download that and then start up mysql to query into it and extract the 
information we need? Honestly that may not be worth our time?
> Do you have already a particular way to do this Jody? How did you add the babel translations to the sdk?
>   
I have not added them to the SDK, only to the extras-3.3.2-babel.zip 
file - to do so I followed the instructions documented in the ADMIN wiki 
space making use of their update site.
> But then, how to do with the udig ones?
> Were you able to understand if it is possible to join the eclipse babel without being some incubated project?
>   
I understand that we would love some software to help us translate the 
project (beyond the ResourceBundleEditor - which is now part of the 
babel project). It would be nice to set up a mysql database using the 
software that the babel project runs; as I understand it they currently 
offer their service only to projects that start with *org.eclipse*, 
which does not include uDig? (although we could always ask to join as a 
GIS Platform - org.eclipse.gis anyone?
> Also how is an nl package created?
>   
They must have some kind of script that runs from their mysql database; 
we may need to download their software from CVS and have a look.
> Many many questions :)
>   
Cheers,
Jody