[Gnucash-changes] r13065 - gnucash/trunk - Fail 'make distcheck' if POTFILES.in contains undistributed files.

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

>> In that case why would you have the strings marked for translation?
>> I can't imagine you'd have a report that says (N_ "¿Donde esta el baño?")
>> if it's already translated and specific to a particular locale.  If all
>> the strings are pure strings then there's no harm in having that file
>> "marked" for translation.  The reverse, however, is an issue...
>
> Ok, that's probably a poor example.

Heh..  Can you come up with a better example, then?

> The thing is, the gettext programs really do expect that POTFILES.skip
> may contain distributed files that aren't translated.  If we're sure
> we don't want to use it for that then the reverse check is fine.

Well, then, perhaps that's not the filename we want to use...

> I think we wouldn't want generated files to marked for translation,
> even if they were distributed.  I don't know what we'd do if we wanted
> to generate a .c file that didn't match our ignore patterns.

Why does it matter?  Do we expect generated files to have strings
that appear to be marked for translation but really aren't?

[snip]
> I guess it boils down to "do we care about --maintain mode?"  If we
> do, we should include the distributed, non-translated files in
> POTFILES.skip.  If not, we might as well call it POTFILES.nodist and
> check for accidental distribution.  In that case, we're not really
> keeping a list of purposely non-translated files -- it's more a list
> of files that _happen_ to be non-translated by virtue of not being
> distributed.  Is that what we want?

I'm not sure we care about --maintain mode.  We certainly haven't ever
cared in the past.

So, yes, I think that what we want right now is a list of
files that happen to be non-translated by virtue of not being
distributed.

> -chris

-derek
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