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Re: Translations gone out for 2.16.
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> (3) Where on sourceware.org were the snapshots placed?
Directory /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/glibc/snapshots (you need an account
with shell access to place things there). It looks rather like they were
automatically generated from CVS and stopped with the move to git. This
maps to ftp://sourceware.org/pub/glibc/snapshots/.
> (4) What version number to use?
>
> I will document that we should use `X.Y.DATE' for the snapshots
> that we send to alpha.gnu.org for TP to use. Following the
> alternate recommendation from the maintainers guide.
>
> The TP instructions say nothing about what version number to use,
> they only say that translations will happen *once* for any given
> version number.
There used to be TP documentation about how versions were ordered. The
instructions I wrote at <http://gcc.gnu.org/translation.html> about using
"gcc-<version>-b<date>.pot" were based on that documentation - the "b" was
supposed to mark beta releases as older than the actual release.
That no longer seems to be documented. However, I think the clearest
thing to do is to use a .90 version - after all, version.h does say
"2.15.90" - along with a date (for example, 2.15.90.20120625). That makes
the ordering with respect to both 2.15 and 2.16 completely clear to
everyone.
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