1.6.x

You can find attached to this post the complete Sparkle source, as checked out from the project's repository. Look through the folders and find your [language].lproj, so that you can check the status of the translation and eventually put it into your localized Camino.

Sparkle is the software update framework used in Camino 1.6+. It comes already translated in many languages.

The new Sparkle update system worked as expected and notified me (using Camino 1.6a1) that betas were available.
In the meantime, Smokey provided us with a possible fix for troubles affecting the old CaminoFramework+Palette package (it worked OK for me with Leopard on Intel, we're waiting some positive results on PPC before releasing the new package on this site).

I then went to my AppleGlot Camino environment and updated the Italian l10n to 1.6b2. First, thanks to the new Universal Binary framework, AppleGlot stopped complaining and run quietly all its passes. Here are the casualties that I found after the AppleGlot treatment. This list is meant as an help for other localizers, anyway, until better AppleGlot days, its better to plan a thorough package inspection everytime a l10n is updated: results may vary among different languages.

The development team is preparing the release of a beta version of Camino 1.6 (or ✈ that is...).
You can find more information about how things are going in this post by Smokey:
http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/14/camino-2008-week-2/
(you might have read it already, if you wisely subscribed to http://caminoplanet.org RSS feed, which also magically provides notice of posts from this very site)

Everyone here at Caminol10n is strongly encouraged to start working on Camino 1.6, and NOW is the right time to do it. You may download a "latest-1.6" nightly build and do your thing with AppleGlot.

Here you'll find the bug containing the finalized release notes for Camino 1.6b1.

You can do that even if you are new to Caminol10n; in this case I suggest you follow simple rules:
- Do that on a PPC box, with Panther or Tiger OS and XCode 2.5
- Find a fellow reviewer for your work; of course he should speak natively your language and have a Mac able to run Camino. Other than that, nothing is needed
- Read the preliminary AppleGlot tutorial

Thanks to everyone who'll be joining the Camino 1.6 effort!

Starting with a possibly complete l10n of 1.5.4, here's a quick checklist of things to look after inside the package, after you ran an AppleGlot complete routine. AppleGlot will complain about nibtool errors but it mostly gets the job done, as long as you have installed XCode 2.5 and have created a symlink for nibtool:
ln -s /XCode\ 2.5/usr/bin/nibtool /usr/bin/nibtool

• Check wether the Localizable.strings file inside the Talkback package is OK, otherwise pick one from previous versions (1 file)
• Check the .strings files inside MacOS/plugins packages and fix version mismatches (3 files)
• Check all the .nib files for the preference panes, looking for layout tweaks and a string to translate in the Navigation/General prefpane; don't forget to use the validate layout function (8 files)
• Check the MainMenu.nib file and see if the View menu is localized (1 file)
• Check the main Localizable.strings file and look for empty translated strings - there should be only 2 about "Script" (1 file)

All in all, it's just 14 files to check and fix in very limited parts. Of course, we're eagerly waiting on the AppleGlot update that should fix all this.

FINAL NOTE FOR THOSE STARTING A L10N FROM SCRATCH

It's strongly suggested to use a PPC/10.4 box. Period.