[Caminol10n] nibtool in Leopard

[J.J. Enser]

quick corrections here:
- nibtool is now ibtool, not xibtool.
- Xcode 3, IB3 and ibtools do recognize IB2 nib files and do not  
necessarily damage them. IB3 can save nib files in 2.x format.  
However, once you do this, I am told that they can only be opened  
again with IB3.
- The upcoming release of AppleGlot will support both environments  
(Tiger/Leopard) with their respective XCode flavor, as well as both  
PPC & Intel architecture. Goodbye little vs. big endian concerns. I  
won't set anyone's expectation by giving you a release date because  
the product still need minor polishing and review before it is  
unleashed in the wild (and also because last time I gave a timeline,  
the loc tools team made me look like a liar...)

Your patience will be soon rewarded.

Stay tuned.
-- jj.

Le 30 oct. 07 à 10:03, J.J. Enser a écrit :

> Here's the scoop:
>
> I would stay away from Leopard for all Camino localization work:
> Leopard ships with XCode 3 which uses a different nib file format than
> XCode 2.x (used for all Tiger-compiled apps).
>
> In XCode 3, nibtool has been renamed xibtool, which will break current
> version of AppleGlot and will not recognize your Xcode 2 nib files (or
> may damage them...)
> A new version of AppleGlot, compatible with Leopard, will be posted to
> apple.com soon.
>
> Finally, ADViewer is not Leopard compatible and will unlikely be
> updated. If someone could write BBEdit scripts to jump from
> translation string to translation string using simple keystrokes (à la
> Cmd-1 and Cmd-2 in ADViewer), that would probably be a sufficient
> replacement :-)
>
> Bottom line, as long as Camino is compiled with XCode 2.x, I suggest
> to stay on Tiger/XCode 2.4/AppleGlot/ADViewer, or use Leopard with
> XCode 2.5 (nibtool) instead of 3.0
> Once Camino is moved to XCode 3, then Leopard system with XCode 3 will
> be the required platform to localize it.
>
> More info to come as it arrives.
> -- jj.
>
> Le 30 oct. 07 à 07:45, Marcello Testi a écrit :
>
>> I have just installed Leopard. I wanted to see if nibtool had been
>> updated, but I couldn't find it. The only thing I can find via the
>> "locate" command is:
>> /Developer/usr/bin/rb_nibtool
>> which I assume is related to ruby.
>> Anybody has different results? Is that supposed to be normal (i.e.
>> nibtool has been dumped in favour of something else)?
>> I run an "initial pass" in AppleGlot and everything seemed fine...
>>
>> I installed XCode Tools using "Ad Hoc", but I just *added* things.
>>
>> I also noticed that now XCode installer installs AppleGlot and
>> ADViewer, though the installed version is the same that we downloaded
>> some time ago from Apple's localization website (3.2.9).
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ciao.
>> Marcello.
>>
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