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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Monty Taylor
<monty.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am more in favor of option 1. I know it means a large patch up front -
> but the strings to be translated have to be identified in some manner to
> create the .pot files. If we don't use the normal tooling to do this,
> we're going to wind up writing our own tools to generate a .pot file
> somehow.
>
> In any case, once we have a .pot file we can use launchpad to translate
> it - I think the main concern from my end is the tooling that will be
> required to support the clever approach.

Exactly.  And, FWIW, I'm about 40% done with the initial i18n patch
that adds gettext functionality to Nova.

-jay