[pygtk] Translation: Different locales directories

[Walter Leibbrandt]

Op 30/05/2010 18:04, het Cornelius Kölbel geskryf:
> Hello List,
>
> i got an application with translation.
>
> I am doing this...
>
>      gettext.bindtextdomain(APP_NAME, LOCALE_DIR)
>      gettext.textdomain(APP_NAME)
>
> But my problem is, that I do different packaging types like source, deb
> and rpm. In these different cases, the location of the mo file is not
> the same for the different packages.
>
> What is the recommended way to handle this?
> Can I provide more than one locale dirs?
> Should I change the code, for each packaging type?
> Should I set an environment variable that contains the correct locales dir?
The get_abs_data_filename() function [1] as used by Virtaal [2] does the 
job on at least Windows and Linux, running from source or from intsallation.

Another solution I've seen is to calculate this location on installation 
and programmatically change a specific source file, from where this 
value is imported/accessed by the application.

[1]: 
https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/trunk/translate/misc/file_discovery.py
[2]: 
https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/trunk/virtaal/virtaal/views/baseview.py

HTH,
-- 
Walter Leibbrandt                  Software Developer
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