Karlis Repsons wrote:

On Monday 08 June 2009 18:40:39 you wrote:

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Yes you can. It isn't seamless as you have to run msgfmt to create a new mailman.mo from mailman.po and do a Mailman restart after uploading new files, but there should be now other difficulties in doing an incremental translation.

Emm... You mean "no other difficulties"?

Yes. Sorry for the typo ...

Please, could you write it out in steps what should be done after I upload files? And thanks for Mailman!

First you need to add

add_language('lv', _('Latvian'), 'utf-8', 'ltr')

to the list at the end of Mailman/Defaults.py, and copy the English (or come other languge if you prefer) templates to templates/lv. E.g.

cd /path/to/templates/ cp -a en lv

You also need to do

mkdir /path/to/messages/lv mkdir /path/to/messages/lv/LC_MESSAGES cp /path/to/unpack/messages/mailman.pot \ /path/to/messages/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po

And make sure the ownership and permissions of these are the same as for other languages. Then do

/path/to/bin/msgfmt.py /path/to/messages/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po

to make the binary mailman.mo file. Then you can do

/path/to/bin/mailmanctl restart

to restart Mailman at which point Mailman should recognize Latvian as a language, but of course it won't be translated.

Then as you make translated templates and add translated messages, you can replace files in /path/to/templates/ and/or the /path/to/messages/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po file.

You then do

/path/to/bin/msgfmt.py /path/to/messages/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po

(only necessary if you changed mailman.po), and

/path/to/bin/mailmanctl restart

Note that there is an experimental Pootle server for Mailman (see http://wiki.list.org/x/KIBJ). I can't help with that, but others on this list can.