Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review nvm.man-page

[Francis Russell]

Thomas Keller wrote:

> The reason why the "manpage" command is not hidden and has this
> interactivity functionality at all is that you cannot create localized
> man pages on build time, since you cannot enforce which message
> catalogue should be used unless the application is installed. So I
> thought it might be a good idea to install the plain text english one
> (available via `man mtn`) and have the localized one when `mtn manpage`
> is called.

I only understood this paragraph after I sent my first message. As the
locale data location can be set by altering the LOCPATH environment
variable, surely it should be possible to create the other localised
man-pages at build time, provided that gettext can be convinced to use a
particular locale?

Francis