459221 - compare-locales: possibility for checking optionally localized modules

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Localizations :: Infrastructure, defect)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

As mentioned in bug 458623 comment #5, once compare-locales is listening to [include_*] sections in l10n.ini as requested in bug 459220, we could even have such sections that list an included module as optional and point to an all-locales file that decides if it should be included for the currently compared locale. This would be especially helpful for SeaMonkey, where L10n of chatzilla and venkman is made optional in the build process exactly in that way.

Comment 1

[Adrian Kalla [:adriank]]

Attachment: proposal for an optional_includes section in l10n.ini as well as corresponding changes to filter.py

as the problem described here was triggered many times during the SeaMonkey 2.0 RC1 release process, I thought it is time to solve it somehow.

My proposal means adding an "optional_includes" section to suite/locales/l10n.ini with paths to the extensions that don't necessarily require localization.
Each extensions would have its own l10n.ini file with an "all" entry with the path to "all-locales" in the "general" section.

That way we would have what we wanted to - without breaking old compare-locales versions.

I've already added support for this in my own "compare-locales2":
http://hg.mozilla.org/users/akalla_aviary.pl/silme-patched/rev/68da8ad0b901

I'm not sure if that additional section is the best way to solve this - so I'll be happy to hear better proposals.


Regarding implementation of that in Pike's compare-locales: changes to read and parse that section in the L10nConfigParser would be very similar to changes I made in the L10nConfigParser of compare-locales2. 
What I'm not sure of is where we could filter the unwanted packages...

Comment 2

[Adrian Kalla [:adriank]]

Attachment: l10n.ini for chatzilla

Comment 3

[Adrian Kalla [:adriank]]

Attachment: l10n.ini for venkman

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

I'm marking this as WONTFIX after 8 years, feel free to move/reopen as necessary.