Error making pot file.

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:30:23PM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> 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.

Maybe we can add a note for translators that you have to run `make
pot` to get the updated filelist?

-chris