[Xfce-i18n] solution for out-of-date pot files in git and/or tx misalignment?

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 15:22:52 CET 2009


2009/12/18 Dimitris Glezos <glezos at indifex.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/12/18 Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com>:
>>> 2009/12/18 Leandro Regueiro <leandro.regueiro at gmail.com>:
>>> Regarding the pot files, thanks Glezos for pointing out the "POT
>>> intltool" option, however all the projects are setup with "POT" only,
>>> so it seems. I can't edit them, and it will take someones full evening
>>> to update them all. Anyhow, that sounds like a great solution :-)
>>
>> This does not work for components that have both a pot file for
>> documentation and a pot file for the 'code'. Like terminal. /me will
>> take care of all the other core components that do not fall in this
>> category (as a start).
>
> Our design decision was the following: If there are two different
> translatable modules, with potentially different settings (i18n
> method, refresh frequency, etc), you can easily add them and manage
> them as separate components in the project page. Just define the 'file
> filter' in a way that limits each component to its directory
> structure.

To all translators, I'll split the products that ship documentation in
a (for example) master and master-docs component. The first one uses
the generated intltool pot file from transifex the latter the pot file
created by xml2po.

Thanks Glezos for the info.

Nick



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