GNUCash translation status

[Claude Paroz]

Le vendredi 18 janvier 2008 à 10:00 -0500, Derek Atkins a écrit :
> Claude Paroz <claude at 2xlibre.net> writes:
> 
> > Because in GNOME/intltool standard toolchain, all string extraction are
> > done with a pure SVN checkout, without any build step or any additional
> > dependencies. It's a design choice, and it clearly has its advantages
> > (maybe drawbacks too), because you don't have to build anything to
> > translate a program.
> > Basically, here's the steps necessary to translate any standard GNOME
> > program:
> > - checkout SVN
> > - intltool-update LANG
> > - translate
> > - msgfmt -o LC_MESSAGES_DIR/LANG.mo LANG.po
> > and there it is !
> 
> Well, that's effectively all you need to do for GnuCash, but in our
> case you just need to add one more step:
> 
>   make -C intl-scm -f Makefile.am abs_top_srcdir=`pwd` srcdir=. \
>   GUILE=/usr/bin/guile guile-strings.c
> 
> Note that you do NOT need to run autogen.sh or configure in order
> to do this.  So just run this after the checkout and before
> the "intltool-update" and you're done.
> 
> > We have also have a request for Damned Lies to consider a
> > maintainer-provided .pot file [1]. We may implement this in the future,
> > but we clearly want to push forward the procedure described above,
> > because it simplifies work for translators.
> 
> I dont think we need to do that.  I just hope that your process
> is flexible enough that you can add a project-specific "special
> case" pre-intltool step.
> 
> Actually, if you could add this step then we could even remove
> POTFILES.in from SVN again and have you run the generation script
> as well.  Again, doesn't require any "building", just a little
> bit of preprocessing.
> 
> Is your process flexible enough to add this kind of step?

Currently not.
But things are now clear enough, thanks Derek. I've entered a bug report
in Damned Lies, so we can track this question there.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510427

Personally, I'd rather have the intltool/guile problem resolved instead.

Claude
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