[Caminol10n] Translating Camino and XCode requirements

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 3:09 AM +0200 on 6/21/09, Marcello Testi wrote:

>Il giorno 20/giu/09, alle ore 11:29, Jan ha scritto:
>
>>I will go ahead with my translation then, install XCode 2.5 when 
>>possible and report back the situation.
>
>Someone from the Camino dev team might step up and confirm this: I 
>think that with Camino 2.0 the backward compatibility issues that 
>required XC2.5 are gone.

We use the Interface Builder that ships with Xcode 2.x in the 
following situations:

1) Modifying (on Mac OS X 10.4) any nib that's performance-critical, 
particularly those in the startup path, e.g. MainMenu.nib, 
BrowserWindow.nib

2) Modifying any nib that uses the CaminoViewsPalette 
[http://cl10n.rwx.it/how-to/appleglot#attachments] (PageInfo.nib, 
ProgressDialog.nib)

We use IB 3.x in the following situation:

3) Modifying FindBarTextured.nib (which is used only on 10.5 and up)

For all the other nibs, everyone uses whatever IB is available.

As long as Camino still supports Mac OS X 10.4, 1) will still be 
necessary, so if at all possible, I'd encourage you to resave those 
.nibs in IB2.x on 10.4 any time you make changes to them in IB itself 
(that is, updating the layout; merging in translated strings with 
(n)ibtool shouldn't have any detrimental effect on performance).

Practically speaking, 2) will still be necessary until we can no 
longer run Xcode 2.5, though at some point before then someone might 
grow tired of having to switch back to IB2.x and will port the 
palette to the new IB3 palette architecture (at which time modifying 
those nibs will require 10.5 and IB 3).

I think that covers all the IB-and-OS-specific issues from the 
development side of things.  Please let me know if anyone has any 
additional questions.

Jan, welcome!  (I'm personally very excited to see Camino coming in 
Slovenian, although the only word I know is potica ;-) )

Smokey
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Smokey Ardisson
Co-Lead
Triage/QA and Website & Documentation
The Camino Project