Re: Can't integrate translation in module sawfish i gnome git

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> (by way of Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>)]

Am Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:51:11 +0100
schrieb Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>:

> Le vendredi 18 décembre 2009 à 18:04 +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek a
> écrit :
> (...)
> > Also using intltool for translating sawfish is not recommended, as
> > intltool can only recognize strings surounded by (_ ) but most of
> > sawfishs strings aren't. Now if you use intltool-update will mark
> > all *valid* strings as #~. So for the time beeing, you should make
> > sure that the old strings are not disabled/untranslated when using
> > intltool.
> > 
> > Current sane way is to do the following:
> > 
> > cd po
> > 
> > # generates a *complete* .pot
> > ./make-pot
> > 
> > # updates all po files against the new pot file
> > for PO in $(ls *.po); do
> > 	./update.sh $(basename $PO .po)
> > done
> > 
> > Editing the po file NOW is safe.
> > 
> > I know that this is not optimal, sorry.
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Damned-Lies supports special way to generate pot files, under two
> conditions:
> - the custom script should apply in a clean tree (that is without
> requiring an autogen/configure)
> - the custom script should be written in a 'standard' (no troll
> intent!) language (e.g. bash, perl, python).
> 
> Another way would be to commit the pot file in Git and Damned-Lies
> could use it to generate stats. I know it's suboptimal to commit
> generated files, but it would be a workaround.
> 
> Claude
> 

Hi Claude,

both scripts are shell scripts, which should work with any modern sh. I
just commited a little change to make-pot to make it work in a clean
tree (it checks wether $(srcdir)/DOC exists or not, and creates it, if
not -- the DOC file is generated by repdoc, which makes the difference
between a intltool or make-pot generated pot-file: it detects all
strings). update.sh works, if there's a pot file in the tree.

Chris