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Great article on Automating Government with e-Governance in India talks about the need to simplify localization of Linux software: Additional attention should be paid to simplifying the steps to add additional language support to the various Linux applications in order to further advance Linux adoption by government agencies. Finally, improved
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Aha! It was the OpenOffice build failing due to localize errors, I just need to find out what they are now (have install sets but not all files are built properly). If I keep on disagreeing with myself like this, I can provide hours of entertainment...
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It was actually an error in my modification to Pavel's build scripts that stopped OpenOffice.org from building (it had built correctly but not produced the install sets). All fixed now. I still think OOo could take some simplification though...
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Well it would be nice if it would build. But localize tends to introduce horrible bugs. The way this works is that for some bizarre reason localizations are merged into text-format resource files. If I can bear it I'll try describe the system some time. But the point
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Started working on OpenOffice.org stuff again today, wanting to get splash screens etc in. So I set up Pavel's nice build system . It uses ccache so you can pull out a fresh source tree each time without worrying about recompiling stuff. Except it took hours to get
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starting blogging... yay!
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The basic syntax is: nb [-b blogdir] [options] How to ... create a new blog location = nb --blogdir [blog_dir] --add create a new category = nb --category new --add create a new entry = nb --add list current entries = nb --list list all categories = nb --list cat list current entries of a