Re: [Caml-list] OCaml messages in French / messages d'OCaml en français - link

[Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 18/11/2012, Pierre-Etienne Meunier <pierreetienne.meunier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be even possible to make a kind of "generic" translation module, so
> that each new translation could be done easily by anyone, and integrated to
> linux distributions such as debian which provide lots of translated programs
> ?

With such an infrastructure it would be possible to have messages that
are not only localized but also of varying verbosity with messages for
beginners which would be more verbose. It could also make it easier
and nicer to improve the current messages.

About the technical aspect, the only sane solution I know of is
gettext (catgets() is the POSIX standard and noone uses it because
it's awful). There is an ocaml library for gettext support but unless
it is integrated into ocaml, there will be a bootstrapping issue.

By the way, Alexis, I think the license of this translation (GPLv3) is
unfortunately incompatible with the QPL that OCaml uses for the
compiler [actually this might depend on the exact interpretation of
the QPL and I think Xavier Leroy's makes it compatible]. A typical way
to license translations is "under the same license as the code" since
they're more than mere data. In any case, thanks for thinking about
it; most people skip that important part.

-- 
Adrien Nader