6th February, 2008

Posted by Sayamindu 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Gnunify
Tomorrow, I take an early morning (I hate those) flight to Mumbai, and from there, I plan on taking a bus to Pune, for Gnunify. I will be speaking on OLPC - a introductory talk, concentrating mostly on how to get started contributing to the project (as a developer/translator/etc).
OLPC Translations
Sameer Verma recently announced on the OLPC localization list that he has uploaded a set of slides on how to use our translation infrastructure (based on Pootle). And soon after, we got Chinese and Bulgarian translations for the slides as well.
I also managed to put in some stuff about testing the translations during last week. We still need a lot of love for the translations though, and if you want to get involved, please do register at our Pootle server.
Combining scripts with archives: The Nvidia binary drivers seem to be combinations of a script and an archive in a single file. Is there any tool to do this easily ?

Commentary

1. 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Hi Sayamindu, a self-extracting shell archive is created with the command shar from the standard GNU package sharutils. Greetings from Germany, Götz

Götz Waschk
2. 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Try using makeself. It is a tool to create self extracting archives and is in the stock repositories of the major distros.

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Jeff Schroeder

[...] Meeting a friend today who will be in town. Sayamindu has a really good talk lined up for the Day 1 of the event so don’t be disappointed with the bland title and do attend if you want to get to a real-deal developer in the Project. If you are coming to the event, I’d say make some time to talk with him. It would have been nice to have him talk at Fosskriti as well doing his bit for GNOME [...]

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