Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>]

I believe that directory is (or at least was) used for generating other
files.  Nathan might be the one to ask... I'm really not sure what the
process is for generating translations anymore.

Cheers,
-Jason
> First of all, huge thanks to Jason for getting me down the right path
> to finding a bug I introduced two weeks ago.  I noticed the bug due to
> testing the license chooser, and he helped me a great deal by (a)
> confirming I'm not insane, and (b) suggesting the two places the bug
> might have been.
>
> I'm getting ready to ship liblicense 0.6, now with support for more
> metadata than just the license (particularly, with support for the Web
> Statement), and I wanted to ask Jason (or if others know, I'm happy to
> hear more views):
>
> What is the purpose of the i18n/ directory in the source tree?  It
> seems to not be shipped in the tarball that gets shipped by 'make
> dist', and we already have a po/ directory for liblicense translations
> as necessary; and the license files themselves have all their
> descriptive information in them in all the supported languages.
>
> As far as I can tell, there is no purpose to it, so I won't add it to
> make dist, and I won't ship it in 0.6, and if no one complains soon I
> will remove it from the development tree.
>
> -- Asheesh.
>