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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just my 2 cent notes...

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 05:40:33PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Hi Carsten
> 
> I have not forgot you! Sorry, I have not had too much time to review
> this before now.
> 
> To comment a bit. I would like to not use use a way that needs
> symlinks because they are not portable. I could possibly be an option
> for systems that do support it,  but I think we should try to avoid
> it.

I agree.

> It seems systems like debian likes to split all languages up into
> seperate packages. I don't know if they have a common package or what
> they do for the common.

Please consider that we can use different packaging systems for different
OSs. Symlinks could do perfecly well for say linux but are not supported
in some older windows systems...

> Please note that there is essentially three locations for images as it
> it seems. Just looking at the html source for the french doc I see the
> following example:
> images/en/status_bar.png
> images/fr/menu_bar.png
> images/toolbar_schedit_standalone.png
> 
> These are relative to the /share/doc/kicad/help/$LANG path.
> 
> How would you handle that gracefully? If we can do it without symlinks
> and duplicated data that would be number one choice.

We can handle the english automatic fallback of incomplete translations
just using the package dependency, that is to say that the english
version of docs must be made mandatory for every other language package...

> I would like to not mix up the images root images and the en images
> dir into one dir.

I also agree here.

TIA

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Marco Ciampa

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