Re: Comparing methods

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 15/04/2006, at 11:40 PM, Ãsmund SkjÃveland wrote:

> > > However, I do appreciate that having a simple way of getting all the
> > > current POT files helps new teams a lot. As a consequence, years  
> > > ago I
> > > requested there be a link on the status pages where you could  
> > > download
> > > a tarball with "all current POT files for developer-libs" and a
> > > tarball with "all current POT files for desktop". I imagine that  
> > > would
> > > not be a very complicated feature to add.
> >
> > Yes, this is the part that I also think could be useful. I gather it
> > didn't happen...
>
> Missing features leads to lots of people thinking up their own hacks.
> For example, here's a bash script that downloads the files for one
> language for you:

Ooh, kewl. :)

> <snip details>
>
> Set LANG_CODE to your language code, of course. I don't know if it'll
> work on Mac (you need a bourne shell and wget).

Mac OSX is UNIX (BSD), so it should work perfectly, thankyou!

bash is the default shell now (it used to be tcsh, so I had to  
specify bash then).

We should have this script in the wiki, linked from one of the GTP  
pages.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
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