Making non-core language packs
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To make a non-core language pack in 2.5 is quite different from making a Core pack.
http://docs.joomla.org/Making_a_Language_Pack_for_Joomla_1.6
The type of package is a "file" type.
Here is a typical xml including installing ini files into the administrator and site default language folders for one language and one extension only. One can include many languages and many extensions.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<extension type="file" version="2.5" method="upgrade">
<name>Myextension_fr-FR</name> //
<author>French Translation Team</author>
<creationDate>24 Janvier 2012</creationDate>
<copyright>(C) 2005-2012 Whoever</copyright>
<license>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU/GPL</license>
<authorEmail>info@whoever</authorEmail>
<authorUrl>http://www.myextension.org</authorUrl>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<description>MYEXTENSION_LANG_INSTALL_DESCRIPTION</description>
<!-- Fileset definition -->
<fileset>
<files folder="admin/fr-FR" target="administrator/language/fr-FR"> // back-end
<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.ini</filename>
<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
<filename>fr-FR.plg_system_myextension.ini</filename>
<filename>fr-FR.plg_system_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
</files>
<files folder="site/fr-FR" target="language/fr-FR"> //front-end
<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.ini</filename>
<filename>fr-FR.com_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
<filename>fr-FR.mod_myextension.ini</filename>
<filename>fr-FR.mod_myextension.sys.ini</filename>
</files>
</fileset>
</extension>
The .zip in this case is composed of the xml above and 2 folders: site and admin, each of them containing a fr-FR folder with the ini files.
myextension_fr-FR_install.xml
site/fr-FR/ + all ini files
admin/fr-FR/ + all ini files
The result is the installation of the ini file in an existing fr-FR folder or creating one if does not exist.
It has no impact on existing files. Uninstalling the "File" pack (Extensions Manager=>Manage=>Filter by "file") will only uninstall the ini files listed.