MozillaTranslator and the ab-CD.jar directory structure

[Ricardo Palomares Martinez]

Hi,

While reviewing A. Decorte (fur-IT) problems with MT, I've found an
issue in the way MT deals with JAR files. MT ignores everything in the
JAR file that is not under /locale/ab-CD/ (and does so in a deliberate
way, not by accident). However, current Firefox JARs have these
directories:

/locale/branding/
/locale/browser/
/locale/browser-region/
/locale/ab-CD/

While not trivial, I think I could remove the /locale/ab-CD/ structure
requirement and stick just to /locale/. That would solve the problem
with Firefox and Sunbird JAR files (Thunderbird ab-CD.jar has
everything under /locale/ab-CD/), but I'm a bit worried about possible
problems that extension localizers could face after this change.

Since I don't know how many people are using MT for localizing
extensions, and I've almost never used it myself for that, I'd rather
ask you for your opinion. Does anyone see a problem in relaxing the
directory structure requirement in MT to just /locale/ instead of
/locale/ab-CD?

TIA

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[Alexander Ihrig]

Ricardo Palomares Martinez schrieb:

Does anyone see a problem in relaxing the
> directory structure requirement in MT to just /locale/ instead of
> /locale/ab-CD?

Maybe we could have an option to switch between both?

Regards
Alexander Ihrig

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[Ricardo Palomares Martinez]

Alexander Ihrig escribió:

> Ricardo Palomares Martinez schrieb:
> Does anyone see a problem in relaxing the
>> directory structure requirement in MT to just /locale/ instead of
>> /locale/ab-CD?
>
> Maybe we could have an option to switch between both?
>

Actually, that's what I'm coding. :-) This will be a property of each
JAR-based product in MT (CVS-based products read every dir and file).

BTW, actually MT reads *all* files in JAR mode too, but it "eats" the
subdir name under "locale/" when adding the files and sub-subdirs into
the structure, so:

/locale/branding/brand.dtd
/locale/browser/aboutDialog.dtd
/locale/browser/bookmarks/addBookmark.dtd
/locale/browser-region/region.properties
/locale/ab-CD/autoconfig/autoconfig.properties

are laid into Plaftorm Neutral this way:

brand.dtd
aboutDialog.dtd
bookmarks/addBookmark.dtd
region.properties
autoconfig/autoconfig.properties

Let's get back to the Java code... :-)

Ricardo