[wp-polyglots] WordPress languages folder

[Milan Dinić]

Maybe to create function that is loaded on register_activation_hook which
would check if locale is different then en_US and if it is, compare to list
of available translations and finally download po/mo for that language in
BuddyPress folder.

This should be used only for BuddyPress because of special circumstances and
not in other plugins.

We should wait for Nikolay's thoughts about this.

2010/6/30 John James Jacoby <in at j-3.me>

>  All of our translations are managed by separate committers on a separate
> SVN. To include all of these translations would force everyone to download
> all languages (300kb po + 100kb mo * 10 languages = 4mb in extra
> translations for every download)
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> To do this, we would have to download each translation separately and add
> it to the tagged package on wp.org.
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> My thought was that if you needed the translation, we could just have a
> cute downloader in BuddyPress that would grab the file, and put it in
> wp-content/languages/buddypress/ for safe keeping. We have our own function
> that loads the po/mo anyhow, so changing the directory that it points to is
> no big deal. Then when BuddyPress 1.2.6 comes out, they won’t have to worry
> about their previously downloaded language getting wiped out, or have to
> download 4MB of additional translations they won’t use.
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> *From:* wp-polyglots-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:
> wp-polyglots-bounces at lists.automattic.com] *On Behalf Of *Peter Westwood
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 30, 2010 5:29 PM
> *To:* wp-polyglots at lists.automattic.com
> *Subject:* Re: [wp-polyglots] WordPress languages folder
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> On 30 Jun 2010, at 21:02, John James Jacoby wrote:
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>   Hey everyone! First time using this list so be gentile. J
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> For BuddyPress, we have a large number of users in languages other than
> English, and when BuddyPress gets updated their po/mo’s are deleted, and
> they are forced to redownload their translations.
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> I was wondering if there is any compelling reason for plugins to NOT put
> their translation files into wp-content/languages/*plugin-folder-name* and
> then write their own functions to load those files, and update those files
> when needed.
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> Seems to me this would fix our problems, but I wanted to consult with you
> all before giving it a go.
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> I just include all current po/mo's in the plugin download.
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> Does this not work for you?
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> e.g. https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress-beta-tester/tags/0.92/
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