13 August 2009, 12:15

Hello,

I was going to update the "Language Structure" documentation which is getting obsolete. However, before I change anything:

is there any language package which has been still defined as a pluggin level, instead of uploading the language files in the langpack directory?

I wonder how you are going to customize the language strings using the /local language directory that Richard is implementing.

Regards

13 August 2009, 20:05

Hi,

Language packs can still be interleaved, but we're not actually advertising that . So it probably wouldn't matter if an updates to the documentation forgot to state that fact.

The local langauge string feature has documentation at http://wiki.mahara.org/Customising/Language_Strings

16 August 2009, 12:11

Hello Nigel,

I have also noticed that, the previous installations always created a folder called "langpacks", where we dowload the language packages. However, when you install Mahara 1,2, this folder is not created. Did I do something wrong when installing Mahara in Ubuntu (I enabled most of the permissions for the folders) or the folder langack is not create as a part of the core installation now, and all the language packages should be installed in that "local" directory?

Thank you very much for your help.

16 August 2009, 19:20

Hi - it's created in dataroot, and check for on every request, so I would expect you to find it in there. I just had a look, and the code to do that is still on the master branch. It's in lib/mahara.php, around line 151.

You're sure it's not there? If it's not when we do the next alpha or first beta, we'll have a look closer. 

18 August 2009, 6:21

Hello Nigel,

It was created, sorry, When you said "Dataroot", I was looking into the code folder, instead of the "Maharadata" folder (that is how I call the dataroot folder, with Artefacts, sessions, etc).

18 August 2009, 19:00

Ah 

Yeah, we create it in there, because that's an area of the filesystem that we know is writable. This gives us potential options in future around providing a GUI in the admin section for installing languages etc. Also it allows David Mudrak's translation tool to write out new language packs.