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[Derek Atkins]

Claude Paroz <claude at 2xlibre.net> writes:

> Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 07:40 -0500, Derek Atkins a écrit :
>> Quoting Claude Paroz <claude at 2xlibre.net>:
>> 
>> > Good step. Now there's still a problem related to scheme files. You have
>> > a specific procedure not supported by standard intltool (it complains
>> > that intl-scm/guile-strings.c doesn't exist). I can see it was already
>> > discussed some time ago:
>> > http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2005-October/013976.html
>> >
>> > In your scheme files, the _ macro is always separated from string with a
>> > space, thus preventing current intltool to detect the string. As I'm
>> > completely lisp/scheme ignorant, is this space mandatory or could it by
>> > batch-removed?
>> 
>> It is necessary.  The white space is syntactical separation
>> between the procedure name ("_") and the argument(s) (the string,
>> in this case).  You cannot remove the white space because the
>> syntax requires it.
>> 
>> Indeed, this is why we generate guile-strings.c.   Our "make pot"
>> rule deals with all this.  I suppose we could attempt to include
>> guile-strings.c in SVN as well if you really can't work with what
>> we've already got.
>
> I'm afraid it is necessary, until intltool supports it.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358495

Why can't you just do "make gnucash.pot"?  We already have the
infrastructure to generate this on the fly in the gnucash build
system.  Why duplicate effort?

> Claude
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-derek

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