GNU Hello: No localization; Where's the source?

snap
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$ snap version
snap    2.35
snapd   2.35
series  16
neon    16.04
kernel  4.15.0-33-generic

$ snap info hello
name:      hello
summary:   GNU Hello, the "hello world" snap
publisher: Canonical✓
contact:   snaps@canonical.com
license:   unset
description: |
  GNU hello prints a friendly greeting. This is part of the snapcraft tour at
  https://snapcraft.io/
commands:
  - hello
  - hello.universe
snap-id:      mVyGrEwiqSi5PugCwyH7WgpoQLemtTd6
tracking:     stable
refresh-date: today at 12:38 CST
channels:                      
  stable:    2.10    (20) 65kB -
  candidate: 2.10    (20) 65kB -
  beta:      2.10.1  (29) 65kB -
  edge:      2.10.42 (34) 65kB -
installed:   2.10    (20) 65kB -

$ locale
LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=zh_TW:zh_CN:en_US:zh_TW:zh_CN
LC_CTYPE="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

$ snap run hello
Hello, world!

$ which hello
/usr/bin/hello

$ hello
哈囉，大家好！
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Regular ping…

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Regular ping…

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Regular bump…

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Are you looking for the source that actually built the snap (ie the snapcraft.yaml)? Or the code for the gnu hello? I believe the gnu hello code is here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/

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Yes, that’s what I want.

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seems apple localized it in french though (sorry, could not resist :smiley: )

https://developer.apple.com/bonjour/

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Regular ping……

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Based on the description of the snap, I suspect it is built from the snapcraft.yaml included in this section of the documentation:

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There should be somewhere hosting the snap’s source? Apparently there’s a packaging bug in the snap and as an demonstrative snap this is quite not acceptable.

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The source of the documentation is here:

https://github.com/canonical-docs/snappy-docs/blob/master/build-snaps/your-first-snap.md

I’m not sure it’d be useful to add extra work-arounds to that snapcraft.yaml, since it would reduce its utility as a tutorial.

As for the bug you mentioned, the problem is almost certainly down to snapcraft building autotools projects with a prefix that differs to where the app is actually going to be installed.

Neither of the values for the install-via property are appropriate: one configures the project with a prefix of "", and the other with a temporary directory as the prefix. Neither option is appropriate for apps that compile in absolute paths based on the prefix (as is likely the case with GNU Hello’s bindtextdomain call).

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I noticed that the hello snap actually output different messages according to it’s providing channel:

$ snap refresh --channel=beta hello
hello (beta) 2.10.1 from Canonical✓ refreshed
$ snap run hello
Hello, snap padawan!
$ snap refresh --channel=edge hello
hello (edge) 2.10.42 from Canonical✓ refreshed
$ snap run hello
Hello, snap guru!
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Nevermind, I finally found it:

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I have filed a fix here:
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/hello-snapcraftio/pull/3