Keeping POTFILES.in sync'd

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Daichi Kawahata wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:47:26 +0100
>Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>  
>
>>Since adding new files to a project is not one of the most common 
>>operations (atleast not in Xfce), I don't see the need to scriptify
>>the generation of POTFILES.in, but I may be missing your point.
>>Maybe you can explain?
>>    
>>
>
>Well, translating in the updated CVS tree, I've noticed POTFILE.in
>doesn't always catching up with source code modifying, e.g.
>I've got xffm 4.3.0.26 (HEAD), tried update .pot file in the po
>directory,
>
This is a bug.  Report it on bugzilla.  As Benny said, it's up to the 
maintainers to update the POTFILES.in file when they add or remove a 
file with translations.  I agree that automating the process sounds 
attractive in theory, but in practice, it's going to cause problems.  At 
any rate, if you encounter this and want to do a translation, you're 
obviously capable of modifying the file yourself in your local copy so 
you don't have to wait for the maintainer to do it.

    -brian