Re: How to translate

CVS = Concurrent Versions System. It is a system that allows you to hold different revisions of the SAME files, and see the changes between each and each version, as well as to revert a change and return a file to the state it were before you changed it. Yes, you must use CVS to translate files, because the manual files are stored on CVS, and this is the only way to update them. What you basically do is "get" the files tree for your relevant translation, and then copy files from the original english distribution to the same place on the tree of the translated manual, translate it, and update the CVS server with your new file. In order to do that you use basically 3 commands: cvs checkout (to get a tree), like: cvs checkout phpdoc-id [if 'id' is the abbreveation code for your language] and: cvs add new-filename-for-cvs-to-know-about cvs commit -m 'reason for action' filename-that-you-now-want-to-update all that, is, of course, after you log-in with your CVS username and password, which you must have. the instructions for doing that are in the pages that you already know, and there is more on that inside the PHP manual itself (look for "translation"). I believe your language has no current "module" (a place where translated files are stored, what you "check-out" to translate), and if that's true, such module should be created by the PHP systems administrators. That, I cannot do. :) So we'll have to wait for them... On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Wiwid Lukiyanto wrote: > Hi, > > First, i'm sorry if my english is bad. > > I want to translate the PHP manual to my language, Indonesia. I know about > XML, but doesn't know about CVS. I read about CVS at > http://www.php.net/cvs-php.php, go to CVS home > (http://www.cvshome.org) and > the others. But I still confuse about CVS. What is CVS? Can I translate the > manual without knowing about CVS? > > Oh yeah. I also look at tjhe http://cvs.php.net. I see the list > of the file. > I opened en/reference/array. And I find some file on there (with format > *.xml). I opened reference.xml. If I want to translate, should I edit > something like that file? > > Thank you. I still confuse =) > > > LuckyGuy354 > IT Beginner > > http://www.wiwid-l.net > > > -- Best regards, Shimi ---- "Outlook is a massive flaming horrid blatant security violation, which also happens to be a mail reader." "Sure UNIX is user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are."