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2 Developing Roundup
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7 Roundup code. If you just wish to alter some behavior of your Roundup
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8 installation, see `Customising Roundup`_.
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16 Getting Started
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17 ---------------
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19 If you are looking for a good first issue, search for `StarterTicket
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20 on https://issues.roundup-tracker.org`_. These include issues where
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21 Python development, documentation or web design skills are useful.
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23 You can continue the conversation using the issue or join the
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24 Roundup-devel list to get assistance and verify your planned changes.
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26 All development is coordinated through two resources:
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28 - roundup-devel mailing list at
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29 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
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33 In addition, the Roundup IRC channel on irc.oftc.net can be accessed
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39 Anyone wishing to help in the development of the Roundup Python core
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40 may find `Roundup's Design Document`_ and the `implementation notes`_
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43 People working on Documentation or designing changes to the Web
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44 interface don't need to get into the implementation internals.
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49 Be polite to others. There is no place for ad hominem attacks.
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51 Mostly the project follows Guido's Python Style (though naming tends
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60 least we know where there's missing documentation) and
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61 changes to tracker configuration must be logged in the
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71 subscribe to roundup-checkins to receive checkin
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75 The goal is to have no flake8 issues. Current code has
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76 complex functions, some long lines and use of mutable
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80 The administrators of the project reserve the right to boot
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81 developers who consistently check in code which is either
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82 broken or takes the codebase in directions that have not
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83 been agreed to.
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85 Setting up a Development Environment
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88 Roundup doesn't require any external libraries. Installing
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89 Python 3 and its core libraries is enough to get Roundup
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90 running.
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92 The easiest way to work with Roundup is to clone the
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93 repository. Roundup is developed using the `Mercurial
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94 distributed version control system (DVCS)`_ [1]_. It is
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95 `hosted at Sourceforge`_. See
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98 If you are used to git, Mercurial's `command equivalence
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99 table`_ can help. Most of the concepts from git (except for
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108 This will create a read only clone (you can't ``hg push``)
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111 tracker`_.
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119 the server using the ``sqlite`` backend. The code is in the
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122 Submitting Changes
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125 Most small changes can be submitted as patches through the
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126 `issue tracker`_ or sent to `Roundup-devel mailing list`_.
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128 Your account on sourceforge can be set up to allow direct
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129 pushes to the repo. Once that is done, using::
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140 Other Resources - CI, Code Coverage
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143 Roundup has a `copy of the mercurial repository on GitHub`_. It is
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182 instead to the internet. This environment variable is independent of
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186 -------------------
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188 All docs are written using sphinx. Use pip or your package manager to
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192 install these requirements using ``python -m pip install -r
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193 <path_to_requirements_file>``.
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195 The extensions sphinx-sitemap generates a sitemap when building for
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199 To build the documentation distributed with a Roundup release, run
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200 ``python setup.py build_doc`` at the root of the source tree. To build
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206 -------------
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208 Create tests for your changes. Also run the tests in reverse to try to
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209 identify test dependencies. You can do this by creating a
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210 ``conftest.py`` in the top of the source tree and include the
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211 following contents::
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213 def pytest_collection_modifyitems(items):
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218 The full test suite can take a while to run. The `pytest-testmon
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219 <https://pypi.org/project/pytest-testmon/>`_ package can be installed
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220 with pip. It analyzes changes to code and run tests that test that
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221 code. This can significantly reduce the time it takes to run a basic
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222 test suite. Use it by running::
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224 python3 -m pytest -v --testmon test
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226 once over the whole test suite. Then subsequent calls will analyze the
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227 changed files/functions and run tests that cover those changes.
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229 To run some tests (test_liveserver.py, test_indexer.py, ...) you need
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232 * requests
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236 Python application and not for development, you will need to install
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237 pytest.
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239 Internationalization Notes
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242 How stuff works:
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246 `Marking Strings for Translation`_ section.
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249 ``locale/roundup.pot`` (_`POT` file). See `Extracting Translatable
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252 3. Language teams use POT file to make Message Files for national
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253 languages (_`PO` files). All PO files for Roundup are kept in
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254 the ``locale`` directory. Names of these files are target
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256 Messages`_ section of this chapter gives useful hints for
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257 message translators.
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262 See `Compiling Message Catalogs`_ section.
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265 system, putting MO files in their appropriate places.
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268 to translate program messages into language selected by current
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269 Roundup user. Roundup command line interface uses locale name
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270 set in OS environment variable ``LANGUAGE``, ``LC_ALL``,
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271 ``LC_MESSAGES``, or ``LANG`` (in that order). Roundup Web User
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272 Interface uses language selected by currently authenticated user.
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274 Additional details may be found in `GNU gettext`_ and Python `gettext
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277 `Roundup source distribution`_ includes POT and PO files for message
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279 from source. Roundup binary distribution includes MO files only.
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280
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281 .. _GNU gettext:
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283 GNU gettext package
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284 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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286 This chapter is full of references to GNU `gettext package`_.
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287 GNU gettext is a "must have" for nearly all steps of internationalizing
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289 for people involved in `I18N`_.
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291 There are GNU gettext ports to all major OS platforms.
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292 Windows binaries are available from `GNU mirror sites`_.
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294 Roundup does not use GNU gettext at runtime, but it's tools
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295 are used for `extracting translatable messages`_, `compiling
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296 message catalogs`_ and, optionally, for `translating messages`_.
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298 Note that ``gettext`` package in some OS distributions means just
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299 runtime tools and libraries. In such cases gettext development tools
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300 are usually distributed in separate package named ``gettext-devel``.
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302 Marking Strings for Translation
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303 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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305 Strings that need translation must be marked in the source code.
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306 Following subsections explain how this is done in different cases.
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308 If translatable string is used as a format string, it is recommended
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309 to always use *named* format specifiers::
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311 _('Index of %(classname)s') % locals()
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313 This helps translators to better understand the context of the
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315 (which is sometimes useful, especially in singular cases of `Plural Forms`_).
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317 When there is more than one format specifier in the translatable
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318 format string, named format specifiers **must** be used almost always,
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319 because translation may require different order of items.
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321 It is better to *not* mark for translation strings that are not
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322 locale-dependent, as this makes it more difficult to keep track
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323 of translation completeness. For example, string ``</ol></body></html>``
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324 (in ``index()`` method of the request handler in ``roundup_server``
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325 script) has no human readable parts at all, and needs no translations.
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326 Such strings are left untranslated in PO files, and are reported
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327 as such by PO status checkers (e.g. ``msgfmt --statistics``).
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329 Command Line Interfaces
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330 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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332 Scripts and routines run from the command line use "static" language
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333 defined by environment variables recognized by ``gettext`` module
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334 from Python library (``LANGUAGE``, ``LC_ALL``, ``LC_MESSAGES``, and
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335 ``LANG``). Primarily, these are ``roundup-admin`` script and
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336 ``admin.py`` module, but also help texts and startup error messages
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337 in other scripts and their supporting modules.
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339 For these interfaces, Python ``gettext`` engine must be initialized
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340 to use Roundup message catalogs. This is normally done by including
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341 the following line in the module imports::
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343 from i18n import _, ngettext
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345 Simple translations are automatically marked by calls to builtin
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346 message translation function ``_()``::
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347
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348 print(_("This message is translated"))
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350 Translations for messages whose grammatical depends on a number
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351 must be done by ``ngettext()`` function::
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353 print(ngettext("Nuked %i file", "Nuked %i files", number_of_files_nuked))
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355 Deferred Translations
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356 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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358 Sometimes translatable strings appear in the source code in untranslated
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359 form [#note_admin.py]_ and must be translated elsewhere.
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360 Example::
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361
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363 print(_(meal))
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365 In such cases, strings must be marked for translation without actual
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366 call to the translating function. To mark these strings, we use Python
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367 feature of automatic concatenation of adjacent strings and different
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368 types of string quotes::
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370 strings_to_translate = (
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371 ''"This string will be translated",
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372 ""'me too',
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373 ''r"\raw string",
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374 ''"""
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375 multiline string"""
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379 extensively used in the ``admin`` module using method docstrings
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380 as help messages.
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382 Web User Interface
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385 For Web User Interface, translation services are provided by Client
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386 object. Action classes have methods ``_()`` and ``gettext()``,
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387 delegating translation to the Client instance. In HTML templates,
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388 translator object is available as context variable ``i18n``.
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390 HTML templates have special markup for translatable strings.
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391 The syntax for this markup is discussed at `ZPTInternationalization`_.
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392 (Originally documented at
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393 http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/ZPTInternationalizationSupport
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394 which is now gone.)
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396 ``i18n:domain``, ``i18n:source`` and ``i18n:target``.
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398 Template markup examples:
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402 <div i18n:translate="">
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403 Say
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404 no
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405 more!
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406 </div>
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407
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408 this will result in msgid ``"Say no more!"``, with all leading and
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409 trailing whitespace stripped, and inner blanks replaced with single
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410 space character.
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411
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412 * using variable slots::
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413
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414 <div i18n:translate="">
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415 And now...<br/>
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416 No.<span tal:replace="number" i18n:name="slideNo" /><br/>
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417 THE LARCH
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418 </div>
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419
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420 Msgid will be: ``"And now...<br /> No.${slideNo}<br /> THE LARCH"``.
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421 Template rendering will use context variable ``number`` (you may use
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422 any expression) to put instead of ``${slideNo}`` in translation.
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423
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424 * attribute translation::
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425
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426 <button name="btn_wink" value=" Wink " i18n:attributes="value" />
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427
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428 will translate the caption (and return value) for the "wink" button.
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429
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430 * explicit msgids. Sometimes it may be useful to specify msgid
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431 for the element translation explicitly, like this::
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432
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433 <span i18n:translate="know what i mean?">this text is ignored</span>
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434
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435 When rendered, element contents will be replaced by translation
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436 of the string specified in ``i18n:translate`` attribute.
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437
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438 * ``i18n`` in `TALES`_. You may translate strings in `TALES`_ python
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439 expressions::
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440
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441 <span tal:replace="python: i18n.gettext('Oh, wicked.')" />
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442
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443 * plural forms. There is no markup for plural forms in `TAL`_ i18n.
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444 You must use python expression for that::
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445
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446 <span tal:replace="python: i18n.ngettext(
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447 'Oh but it\'s only %i shilling.',
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448 'Oh but it\'s only %i shillings.',
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449 fine) % fine"
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450 />
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451
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452 Detectors and extensions
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453 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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454
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455 The correct ``i18n`` objects gets automatically injected in the hyperdb.
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456 In a detector you can access the i18n object and do translation like
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457 this::
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458
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459 def statusfail(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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460 _ = db.i18n.gettext
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461 raise ValueError(_("this does not work"))
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462
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463 def init(db):
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464 # fire before changes are made
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465 db.status.audit('create', statusfail)
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466
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467 .. index::
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468 i18n; adding translations for your tracker
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469 see: internatonalization; i18n
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470 see: localization; i18n
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471
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472 Extracting Translatable Messages
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473 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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474
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475 The most common tool for message extraction is ``xgettext`` utility
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476 from `GNU gettext package`_. Unfortunately, this utility has no means
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477 of `Deferred Translations`_ in Python sources. There is ``xpot`` tool
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478 from Francois Pinard free `PO utilities`_ that allows to mark strings
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479 for deferred translations, but it does not handle `plural forms`_.
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480
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481 Roundup overcomes these limitations by using both of these utilities.
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482 This means that you need both `GNU gettext`_ tools and `PO utilities`_
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483 to build the Message Template File yourself.
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484
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485 Latest Message Template File is kept in the source code repository
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486 and distributed with `Roundup Source`_.
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487 If you wish to rebuild the template yourself,
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488 make sure that you have both ``xpot`` and ``xgettext`` installed and
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489 just run ``gmake`` (or ``make``, if you are on a `GNU`_ system like
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490 `linux`_ or `cygwin`_) in the ``locale`` directory.
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491
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492 For on-site i18n, Roundup provides command-line utility::
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493
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494 roundup-gettext <tracker_home>
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495
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496 extracting translatable messages from tracker's html templates.
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497 This utility creates message template file ``messages.pot`` in
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498 ``locale`` subdirectory of the tracker home directory. Translated
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499 messages may be put in *locale*.po files (where *locale* is selected
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500 locale name) in the same directory, e.g.: ``locale/ru.po``.
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501 These message catalogs are searched prior to system-wide translations
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502 kept in the ``share`` directory.
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503
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504 Translating Messages
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505 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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506
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507 Gettext Message File (`PO`_ file) is a plain text file, that can be created
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508 by simple copying ``roundup.pot`` to new .po file, like this::
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509
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510 $ cp roundup.pot ru.po
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511
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512 The name of PO file is target locale name, usually just 2-letter language
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513 code (``ru`` for Russian in the above example). Alternatively, PO file
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514 may be initialized by ``msginit`` utility from `GNU gettext`_ tools::
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515
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516 $ msginit -i roundup.pot
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517
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518 ``msginit`` will check your current locale, and initialize the header
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519 entry, setting language name, rules for `plural forms`_ and, if available,
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520 translator's name and email address. The name for PO file is also chosen
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521 based on current locale.
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522
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523 Next, you will need to edit this file, filling all ``msgstr`` lines with
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524 translations of the above ``msgid`` entries. PO file is a plain text
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525 file that can be edited with any text editor. However, there are several
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526 tools that may help you with this process:
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527
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528 - `poEdit`_ by Vaclav Slavik. Very nice cross-platform GUI editor.
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529
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530 - `Lokalize`_. A replacement for KBabel. Being part of `KDE`_, it
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531 works in X windows only. Haven't had much experience with it, though.
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533 - ``po-mode`` for `emacs`_. One of `GNU gettext`_ tools. Very handy,
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534 definitely recommended if you are comfortable with emacs. Cannot
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535 handle `plural forms`_ per se, but allows to edit them in simple
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536 text mode.
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538 - `po filetype plugin`_ for `vim`_. Does not do as much as ``po-mode``,
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539 but helps in finding untranslated and fuzzy strings, and checking
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540 code references. Please contact `alexander smishlajev`_ if you
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541 prefer this, as i have patched this plugin a bit. I have also
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542 informed the original plugin author about these changes, but got
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543 no reply so far.
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544
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545 Compiling Message Catalogs
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546 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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548 Message catalogs (`PO`_ files) must be compiled into binary form
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549 (`MO`_ files) before they can be used in the application. This
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550 compilation is handled by ``msgfmt`` utility from `GNU gettext`_
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551 tools. ``GNUmakefile`` in the ``locale`` directory automatically
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552 compiles all existing message catalogs after updating them from
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553 Roundup source files. If you wish to rebuild an individual `MO`_
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554 file without making everything else, you may, for example::
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555
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556 $ msgfmt --statistics -o ru.mo ru.po
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557
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558 This way, message translators can check their `PO`_ files without
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559 extracting strings from source. (Note: String extraction requires
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560 additional utility that is not part of `GNU gettext`_. See `Extracting
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561 Translatable Messages`_.)
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563 At run time, Roundup automatically compiles message catalogs whenever
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564 `PO`_ file is changed.
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565
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566 .. [1] Roundup is written in Python and we believe in using tools in
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567 the Python ecosystem whenever possible.
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571 .. _`Customising Roundup`: customizing.html
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572 .. _`Roundup's Design Document`: spec.html
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573 .. _`implementation notes`: implementation.html
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576 .. _External hyperlink targets:
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578 .. _alexander smishlajev:
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579 .. _als: https://sourceforge.net/u/a1s/profile/
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580 .. _CodeCov: https://app.codecov.io/gh/roundup-tracker/roundup
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581 .. _copy of the mercurial repository on GitHub:
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582 https://github.com/roundup-tracker/roundup
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583 .. _command equivalence table: https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/GitConcepts#Command_equivalence_table
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584 .. _Coveralls: https://coveralls.io/github/roundup-tracker/roundup
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585 .. _cygwin: https://www.cygwin.com/
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586 .. _emacs: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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587 .. _flake8: https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/
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588 .. _gettext package: https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
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589 .. _gettext module: https://docs.python.org/2/library/gettext.html
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590 .. _GitHub Actions: https://github.com/roundup-tracker/roundup/actions
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591 .. _GNU: https://www.gnu.org/
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592 .. _GNU mirror sites: https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
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593 .. _hosted at sourceforge:
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594 https://sourceforge.net/p/roundup/code/ci/default/tree/
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595 .. _issue tracker: https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/
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596 .. _Lokalize: https://apps.kde.org/lokalize/
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597 .. _KDE: https://kde.org/
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598 .. _linux: https://www.linux.org/
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599 .. _Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS):
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600 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
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601 .. _Plural Forms:
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602 https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/gettext.html
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603 .. _po filetype plugin:
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604 https://vim.sourceforge.io/scripts/script.php?script_id=695
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605 .. _PO utilities: https://github.com/pinard/po-utils
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606 .. _poEdit: https://poedit.net/
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607 .. _pylint: https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/
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608 .. _Roundup Source:
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609 .. _Roundup source distribution:
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610 .. _Roundup binary distribution:
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611 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/files/
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612 .. _roundup-devel mailing list:
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613 https://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/lists/roundup-devel
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614 .. _StarterTicket on https://issues.roundup-tracker.org:
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615 https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,status&@sort=activity&@filter=status,keywords&status=-1,1,2&keywords=15&@dispname=Starter%20tickets
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616 .. _TAL:
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617 .. _Template Attribute Language:
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618 https://pagetemplates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history/TALSpecification14.html
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619 .. _TALES:
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620 .. _Template Attribute Language Expression Syntax:
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621 https://pagetemplates.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history/TALESSpecification13.html
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622 .. _TravisCI: https://app.travis-ci.com/github/roundup-tracker/roundup
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623 .. _vim: https://www.vim.org/
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624 .. _ZPTInternationalization: http://grok.zope.org/doc/community/view_generation/i18n_of_your_app.html
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