latest status and plans

[Henrik Brautaset Aronsen]

Den 15.10.12 08:06, skrev Henrik Brautaset Aronsen:
> Den 15.10.12 06:02, skrev Dirk Hohndel:
>> I think what we have works well enough on Linux and Mac. I still haven't
>> had the time to look into a good solution for the mess on
>> Windows. That's definitely on the TODO list before creating 2.1
>
> I haven't looked much at it, but don't think we have a working 
> translation solution for the bundled Mac .app yet.

I just submitted a patch with better support for the mac app bundles.  
While I was playing around with dtruss to figure out what gettext does, 
I noticed that gettext behaves differently when I start Subsurface 
different ways.

Start from commandline (./subsurface):

open("/Users/henrik/src/subsurface/locale/no_NO.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x107CC3350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Users/henrik/src/subsurface/locale/no_NO.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x107CC3350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Users/henrik/src/subsurface/locale/no_NO/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x107CC3350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Users/henrik/src/subsurface/locale/no.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x107CC3350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Users/henrik/src/subsurface/locale/no.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x107CC3350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Users/henrik/src/subsurface/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x107CC3350)         = -1 Err#2

Start app bundle from commandline (open -a Subsurface):

open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/no_NO.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10B6C2350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/no_NO.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10B6C2350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/no_NO/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10B6C2350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/no.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10B6C2350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/no.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10B6C2350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10B6C2350)         = -1 Err#2

Start app bundle from desktop (double click app icon):

open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10D1FC350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10D1FC350)         = -1 Err#2
open("/Applications/Subsurface.app/Contents/Resources/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/subsurface.mo\0", 
0x0, 0x10D1FC350)         = -1 Err#2


So, in order to support all scenarios I need to make an alias or two for 
the Norwegian translation.  I guess this might be the case for other 
languages as well.  Does adding support for language aliases in the 
Makefile sound like a good idea?

Also, I think it's safe to drop the UTF-8 suffix from the locale.

H