This page describes the purpose and usage of scripts available in the Translate Toolkit specifically for making the translation of Mozilla products easier.
Mozilla’s move from CVS to Mercurial made a lot of these scripts necessary. For more information about Mozilla l10n from CVS, see the moz-l10n-builder page.
All of these scripts are available on Subversion from here.
We are currently generating POT files for most major betas, RCs and releases of Firefox and Thunderbird. They are available here: http://l10n.mozilla.org/pootle/pot/
As a start you might want to just use these POT files and gradually learn more about the processes described below. Contact us for more help on using these.
This is a simple bash script that embodies most of the Mozilla l10n process and does the following:
This script is used on the l10n.mozilla.org server to create most (if not all) of the files available from http://l10n.mozilla.org/pootle/. It was originally written as a stable way to provide these files and as such making it as general as possible was not the biggest requirement. This is evident in the script’s very narrow focus.
This script takes no command-line parameters and is only configurable via the variables at the top and, failing that, custom hacking of the script.
The variables are used in the following ways:
| BUILD_DIR | The base build directory from where building is done. |
| MOZCENTRAL_DIR | The directory containing a checkout of the Mozilla source tree http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ |
| HG_LANGS | A space-separated list of language codes to build for. |
| L10N_DIR | The directory where Mozilla l10n files (from l10n-central) should be collected. |
| PO_DIR | The directory containing the externally-hosted or previously available source PO files (e.g. PO files managed in another VCS repository). It contains a sub-directory for each language. |
| POPACK_DIR | The output directory for PO archives. |
| PORECOVER_DIR | The directory to put recovered PO files in. It contains a sub-directory for each language. |
| POT_INCLUDES | A space-separated list of files to be included in POT archives. |
| POTPACK_DIR | The output directory for POT archives. |
| POUPDATED_DIR | The directory to use for updated PO files. It contains a sub-directory for each language. |
| LANGPACK_DIR | The directory to put langpacks (XPIs) in. |
| FF_VERSION | The version of Firefox that is being built for. This is used in the file names of archives. |
Note
It is strongly recommended that you mirror the directory structure specified by the default values of the *_DIR variables. For example the default value for L10N_DIR is ${BUILD_DIR}/l10n, then you should put your l10n-central check-outs in the l10n directory under your main build directory (BUILD_DIR).
Basically, you should have an ideally separate build directory containing the following sub-directories: l10n, mozilla-central, po, popacks, potpacks, po-updated and xpi (if used). This way the only variable that need to be changed is BUILD_DIR.
This is the script that the build_ff3.1_langs.sh script above was actually adapted from. It is 90% similar with the obvious exception that it is aimed at building Thunderbird 3.0 packages in stead of Firefox 3.1. Also note that this script uses the comm-central repository in stead of mozilla-central.
Creates XPI language packs from Mozilla sources and translated l10n files. This script has only been tested with Firefox 3.1 beta sources.
It is basically the scripted version of the process described on Mozilla’s “Creating a language pack” page.
This script is used by build_ff3.1_langs.sh to build language packs in its final step.
Note
This script uses the .mozconfig file in your home directory. Any existing .mozconfig is renamed to .mozconfig.bak during operation and copied back afterwards.
buildxpi.py [<options>] <lang> [<lang2> ...]
Example:
buildxpi.py -L /path/to/l10n -s /path/to/mozilla-central -o /path/to/xpi_output af ar
Options:
| -h, --help | show this help message and exit |
| -L L10NBASE, --l10n-base=L10NBASE | |
| The directory containing the <lang> subdirectory. | |
| -o OUTPUTDIR, --output-dir=OUTPUTDIR | |
| The directory to copy the built XPI to (default: current directory). | |
| -p MOZPRODUCT, --mozproduct=MOZPRODUCT | |
| The Mozilla product name (default: “browser”). | |
| -s SRCDIR, --src=SRCDIR | |
| The directory containing the Mozilla l10n sources. | |
| -d, --delete-dest | |
| Delete output XPI if it already exists. | |
| -v, --verbose | Be more noisy |
A simple script to collect the en-US l10n files from a Mozilla source tree ('comm-central‘ or 'mozilla-central‘) by traversing the product’s l10n.ini file.
get_moz_enUS.py [options]
Options:
| -h, --help | show this help message and exit |
| -s SRCDIR, --src=SRCDIR | |
| The directory containing the Mozilla l10n sources. | |
| -d DESTDIR, --dest=DESTDIR | |
| The destination directory to copy the en-US locale files to. | |
| -p MOZPRODUCT, --mozproduct=MOZPRODUCT | |
| The Mozilla product name. | |
| --delete-dest | Delete the destination directory (if it exists). |
| -v, --verbose | Be more noisy |
This is the pre-Mercurial build script originally written by Dwayne Bailey. This is the script that all the others on this page replaces for post-CVS Mozilla l10n.
Note
This script is not applicable to the l10n process of any Mozilla products after the move to Mercurial.
For more information about this script see its dedicated page.