Re: evolution-exchange, pot-file missing

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Åegan)]

Actually, I know of just The Right Person to ask about these issues,
since he's active in both evolution-exchange and intltool: Rodney ;-) 

Rodney, can you give insight on 

2004-08-24  Rodney Dawes  <dobey novell com>

        * configure.in: Fix GETTEXT_PACKAGE to include -${BASE_VERSION} again
        Was accidentally removed on 2004-06-01 with "no" addition

and how is it supposed to work with intltool? (Try eg. "intltool-update sr" 
inside "evolution-exchange/po/"). 

Not entirely relevant, but here's a discussion from gnome-i18n which
led to my coming to you ;)

Cheers,
Danilo


Today at 23:07, Danilo Åegan wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Today at 21:02, Martin Willemoes Hansen wrote:
>
>> The pot-file seems to be missing from the evolution-exchange package.
>> The statistics for Danish is not generated correctly for this package:
>> http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.8/da/desktop/index.html
>>
>> Anyone know what is going on?
>
> Uhm, yes, I know what's going on ;-)
>
> intltool-update tries to deduce the POT file name from configure.in
> file.  Unfortunately, this doesn't work very well for
> evolution-exchange since it uses shell backticks for getting version
> number of evolution-exchange into POT name (if intltool-update blindly
> just used this string everywhere, as it does in "-p", it might work,
> but that would limit our ability to detect common errors).
>
> It has long been suggested *not* to use anything but static strings
> in a definition of GETTEXT_PACKAGE (some things are correctly parsed,
> but anything fancy such as this is way off), at least when using
> intltool.
>
> This should be reported as a bug in evolution-exchange: care to do
> that and CC dsegan gmx net at http://bugzilla.ximian.com/?
>
> Thanks for spotting and reporting this!
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo