[development] Manual import of .po files for contributed modules needed?

[Jakub Suchy]

Olav Schettler wrote:
> Sorry for bugging you. This is a cross post from http://drupal.org/ 
> node/130702 where I haven't got a satisfying  answer yet.
> 
> My question: Is there an automatism already implemented or in the  
> works that imports .po files of contributed modules (those in the po/  
> subdirectory) when I activate that contributed module via the admin  
> web interface?
> 
> Wouldn't this be a good idea?
> 
> Or, am I supposed to download these files manually from my server- 
> side installation and feed them to localize.

You should look at http://drupal.org/project/autolocale
The CVS version works well, it has some problems when your server is too
slow to import all translations - see http://drupal.org/node/127539 (and
if you can help... :-)

Jakub