Re: Incomplete .pot/.po files for several modules

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le 13. 08. 17 à 13:39, Ask Hjorth Larsen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> 2017-08-12 22:33 GMT+02:00 Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>:
> > A quick PSA,
> >
> > damned-lies generates incomplete .pot/.po files for totem,
> > totem-pl-parser, nautilus-sendto, and gnome-bluetooth, and it’s
> > unlikely to change until
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783099 is fixed.
>
> Back in the day we could always could on intltool-update to do the
> job.  Nowadays things are... complicated :).  Would it not make sense
> to request that all projects provide a specific command (whether
> intl-tool update or not) that updates the messages for a particular
> language?  That way damned lies won't have to do so much maintenance
> work, and the developers are familiar with their own build system
> anyway.  Also life becomes easy for those who have the habit of
> committing to git directly.

I would like to fully support this claim.
Having to use the software build system to update .pot or .po files is a 
BIG loss for the translation toolchain.
The patch recently added to Damned-Lies to be able to properly rebuild 
pot files for meson-based modules are mainly hacks, not a proper resolution.

Claude
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