Re: contrib translations

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:59:45AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie sep 14 10:37:18 -0300 2012:
> > Someone asked me about translations for pg_upgrade, and I don't see 'po'
> > directories for any of the contrib tools. Do we not translate contrib
> > stuff? Why?
>
> We don't. I don't know the exact reason, but I know that while perusing
> pg_upgrade's source recently I found several things that will need to be
> changed there in order for it to be decently translatable. Some _()
> were in the wrong places, there are several cases of sentences being
> constructed from parts, and so on.
>
> If we were to move it to src/bin/ then we would have to talk about
> translatability. Prior to that I would think it's premature. I mean,
> if we don't consider it good enough to be in src/bin/, why waste
> translator time on it?

This was a more general question of why contrib doesn't get _any_
translations.

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