[Xfce-i18n] transifex. feature request: msgmerge

[Dimitris Glezos]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Mike Massonnet<mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/8/23 Carles Muñoz Gorriz <carlesmu at internautas.org>:
>> En/na Stavros Giannouris ha escrit:
>>> 2009/8/23 Carles Muñoz Gorriz <carlesmu at internautas.org>:
>>>> Hi;
>>>>
>>>> Before moving to transifex I used to use msgmerge to normalize the new
>>>> po file because my po editor (poedit) messed the number of columns and
>>>> joined the referenced source lines. Also, without the msgmerge command
>>>> we get big and useless diffs.
>>>>
>>>> Could something similar be added to transifex when a po file is uploaded?
>>>>  $ msgmerge uploaded_po_file relevant_pot_file > out.po && mv out.po
>>>> uploaded_po_file
>>>>
>>>
>>> What prevents you from doing that before uploading through transifex?
>>
>>
>> Nothing, I have done it with my recent uploads with transifex but it is
>> slow. By example, if a package has more than one pot file (e.g.: po/ and
>> po-doc/) the po file and the pot files are not in the same page, the
>> names are long and it is easy to make a mistake.
>>
>> Also, if it is done in the transifex server, it not depends on the
>> translator remembering to do it.

I like this idea. It will require some work, but we're scheduling a
restructuring of the Submission backend, which will make it easier to
do these kind of tricks. For the UI I was thinking something like
this:

  http://glezos.fedorapeople.org/transifex-merge.png

What do you think?

>> There is also the problem, if I want to download the files to the same
>> directory, that the po file names are not unique (nor the pot) in
>> transifex, most of the po/$lang.po and po-doc/$lang.po files has the
>> same name (for the same project and revision).

This could definitely be improved in Tx. We want the downloadable file
names to be kinda unique to avoid such cases.

> But I would actually hope that there would be a download link for the
> whole apps of a collection. This is at least possible on Moblin[1].
> Jannis, any idea? :-)
>
> [1] http://translate.moblin.org/languages/fr/collection/Moblin2/moblin2x/

This feature is available as a configuration option. It does take some
live CPU cycles to work though, and the use of a robots file will
definitely be a Good Idea™.

-d



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Dimitris Glezos

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