Re: Emacs manuals translation readme

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:31:26 +0800
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
> writes:
> 
> >> I think I have covered all the recent comments to the original proposal.
> >> 
> >> 1. the "lang" directory is renamed "translations"
> >> 
> >> → the length of the name is not really relevant since we have term 
> >>  completions in Emacs
> >> → "translations" is more indicative of the contents of the folder than 
> >>  "lang"
> 
> `translations' doesn't conform to the 8.3 naming scheme used under
> MS-DOS, and we only require a long file name driver for building Emacs,
> not for running it, and certainly not for reading Info manuals.  But I
> could well be mistaken.

Long file names will only be a problem if they cash with other file
names in the same directory.  In this case I don't think there will be
such a clash.

FWIW, I prefer 'lang', for more than one reason.  But I won't fight if
others prefer 'translations'.