translations not working if installed to non-system path

[erikos]

Tested with Write and Calculate (de and fr). Terminal is fine.

Confirmed by our translation hero itself.

[sascha_silbe]

It seems gettext always defaults to /usr/share/locale, with no env var to override it.
So we need to either build our own version of gettext (that uses the sugar-jhbuild path) or set the locale path in each and every process using gettext.
I'll give option #1 a try (though I don't like it).

[sascha_silbe]

OK, that exercise was a waste of time (though I now know how to actually add patches - the docs are incorrect).
The python gettext module determines the path independently from the GNU gettext library:

sascha.silbe@twin:~$ grep prefix /usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py
_default_localedir = os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'share', 'locale')

So now we've got three to four options:

a) Build (full) Python inside sugar-jhbuild.
b) Add a small module that ships a hacked gettext.py.
c) Set the locale path in each and every process using gettext.
d) File an RFE upstream to add support for supplying the path in an env var or using the Python module search path.

a) would mean we have to closely watch Python for security updates, like we already have to for xulrunner. Doesn't scale very well.
b) is a hack and might cause problems with future Python versions, but is easiest to implement and the security implications are minimal.
c) would require changes to a lot of different modules, though mostly one-time fixes (i.e. no maintainance required).
d) is the most general solution (would help other projects as well), but won't help in the short run.

While the computer science guy in me prefers c), b) + d) are probably more practical (though I'm not sure how upstream will handle our request - after all, for any single module it's easy to override the default).

[sascha_silbe]

Reassigning to sugar as the correct fix would live there.

[sascha_silbe]

Just stumbled about the following code block in sugar.activity.activityfactory.get_environment():

    if activity.get_path().startswith(env.get_user_activities_path()):
        environ['SUGAR_LOCALEDIR'] = os.path.join(activity.get_path(), 'locale')

Maybe making this assignment unconditional would fix (a part of) our problem?

[godiard]

This is not a issue anymore

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 0.86 deleted