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Contributing to paru

Formatting

Please format the code using cargo fmt

Building

Paru is built with cargo.

To build paru use:

cargo build

To run paru use:

`cargo run -- <args>

Paru has a couple of feature flags which you may want to enable:

  • backtrace: does nothing, kept around for backwards compatibility
  • git: target the libalpm-git API
  • generate: generate the libalpm bindings at build time (requires clang)

Building Against a Custom libalpm

If you wish to build against a custom libalpm you can specify ALPM_LIB_DIR while using the generate feature. Then running with LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointed at the custom libalpm.so.

Testing

Paru's test suite can be run by running:

cargo test --features mock

Translating

See Morganamilo#433 for discussion on localization. You probably want to subscribe to this to be nodified when translations need to be updated.

New Languages

When translating to a new language try to stick to languages pacman already supports: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/tree/master/src/pacman/po. For example using es over es_ES.

To translate paru to a new language, copy the the template .pot file to the locale you are translating to.

For example, to translate paru to Japanese you would do:

cp po/paru.pot po/jp.po

Then fill out the template file with your information and translation.

Alternatively, you can use programs like poedit to write the translations.

Updating existing translations

To update existing translations against new code you must first update the .po files.

Do this as its own commit.

./scripts/updpo
git commit po

Then fill in new strings.

Testing Translations

To test the translations you first must build the translation then run paru pointing it at the generated files.

./scripts/mkmo locale/
LOCALE_DIR=locale/ cargo run -- <args>