HUGE compling speedup

[Jon Lapham]

Could someone tell me again why we don't run "msgmerge" on the .po files 
in CVSand save the merged files?

On my PIII800 a gazillion minutes of compiling GnuCash is spent running 
msgmerge, every friggin' time I recompile.    Most of that time is spent 
merging .po files that haven't been updated in forever, whereas recently 
updated .po files merge very quickly.

The first thing we tell translators is to merge their .po file with the 
most recent gnucash.pot and start from there...  so why can't one of us 
simply do this?  I'm not suggesting we do this as a policy, but simply 
that we should do it occasionally when compile times start to get out of 
control.

That someone could be yours truly... I'll send a patch if people think 
it is a good idea.

PS: oh, and I think we should do this only to those files that haven't 
been updated in forever... like maybe the last 6 months?

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  Jon Lapham  <lapham at extracta.com.br>          Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  Work: Extracta Moléculas Naturais SA     http://www.extracta.com.br/
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