Xfce documentation note (kind of long)

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 2009/06/30 15:44, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 2009/7/1 Brian J. Tarricone<brian at tarricone.org>:
>> On 2009/06/30 15:00, Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>> It
>>> sucks less on GNOME, they have a m4 macro to help decrease the code
>>> for automake scripts. Ditching xml2po would make it simpler to add
>>> translations without having to run through endless configure and
>>> makes.
>> We have custom m4 macros too.  If ours needs to be improved, feel free to
>> write patches for xfce4-dev-tools... or at least describe the changes (in a
>> bug report) so someone else can figure out how to do it best.
>
> Actually I was wrong by emphasing the use of the m4 macro. I have a
> template with all the sub-directories and files and it is just about
> copy/pasting it in a new project, just like it is about modifing the
> Makefile and create the help directory for GNOME projects.
>
> The real thing is that in GNOME they do not need to add a bunch of
> help/fr/Makefile, help/fr/images/Makefile inside the autoconf script.
> This is where the build system is less annoying.

Mmm, yes, I never liked that.  We probably should just store all the 
files in the same dir, named $PACKAGE.$LANG.xml, and rename them on 
install, maybe with a DOC_LINGUAS file so no one needs to mess with the 
makefiles.  But since we're moving to a new docs system it's probably 
not worth changing just yet.

	-b