[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBDS-726) Installer should deploy Babel langpacks for Eclipse

[Sean Flanigan (JIRA)]

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Sean Flanigan commented on JBDS-726:
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Based on what I've seen packaging eclipse-nls/Babel for Fedora, I would recommend removing Babel's feature definitions, and just deploying the fragment plugins under dropins/babel.  

Langpack features don't really do anything useful unless you're going through an update manager, and they can actually cause usable fragments to be elimininated from the configuration if you don't have some of the other fragments' host plugins installed.  When using p2 metadata, you can modify content.xml to make the fragments optional, but I don't think this applies to dropins.

It's probably worth mentioning that the total size for the plugin jars (de, es, fr, ja, pt_BR, zh) is about 24MB.  (Using 20090423 Galileo langpacks.)

> Installer should deploy Babel langpacks for Eclipse
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-726
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBDS-726
>             Project: Developer Studio
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: installer
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Sean Flanigan
>            Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
>             Fix For: 3.0.0.M1
>
>
> For Developer Studio to be fully translated, we need to package the Babel langpacks for Galileo [1] in our target languages [2].  These langpacks provide translations for Eclipse and related eclipse.org projects (TPTP, datatools, etc).  Translations are always being updated, so we will need to be able to update the langpacks without too much mucking around.
> NB: This issue is separate from the question of translating the installer's own English text.
> To install the langpacks, we just need to extract them all under jbdevstudio/eclipse/dropins (or perhaps dropins/babel for neatness).
> Any guidance on how to approach this?  eg, the storage of these langpack downloads, repackage as one big zip (better compression?) or keep the many smaller zips, whether we need a script (sh, Ant?) to download the required langpacks automatically, that sort of thing.
> [1] http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/babel_language_packs/
> [2] de, es, fr, ja, pt_BR, zh

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