Error making pot file.

[Christian Stimming]

Chris Shoemaker schrieb:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:23:01AM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> 
>>Neil Williams schrieb:
>>
>>>>Does anyone know why we version-control this generated file?
>>
>>No, please don't remove it. The reason why we version-control this 
>>generated file is because the Makefile in that directory is not under 
>>our control (but instead gettext's) and it doesn't contain any rules for 
>>creating that file. The gettext setup assumes by convention that this 
>>file exists and doesn't need to be generated, so as long as we use the 
>>gettext build system in the po directory, we need to follow that 
>>convention.
> 
> I thought there was some reason, I just couldn't remember.  Instead of
> reverting, I'll commit a stub po/POTFILES.in explaining why the file
> is in SVN.  Then maybe we can set an ignore property for it.

Err, what does a stub help here? The point is that people (and maybe 
translators) run "make" and expect that the gnucash.pot will be 
correctly built. This is only achieved if there is a ready-to-use 
po/POTFILES.in in SVN, IMHO. This is what gettextize conventions are, so 
we have to stick to that. I don't understand how else you try to achieve 
this.

Christian