Support for older distros

[Geert Janssens]

On donderdag 23 maart 2017 20:11:36 CET Geert Janssens wrote:
> > There's also gettext (see bug 759844
> > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759844>), but that's more an
> > issue for what we use to build release tarballs than anything that users
> > or
> > distro packagers need to be concerned about.
> 
> Ah yes, the gettext bug. There are two actually the one you mention here and
> Bug 745941 - Review of po Headers / make pot[1]
> The former is about translatable strings being omitted from glade files if
> they have a context attribute *and* we're building in tree. This bug can
> simply be avoided by building out of tree. That however triggers a bug in
> intltool versions older than 0.51 (which incidentally is the last released
> version and rather old by now).
> 
> The latter bug started out as a bug reporting two translation issues. One
> has been fixed, the other is actually the very same intltool issue of
> causing absolute paths in gnucash.pot and derived po files. Again the
> immediate solution is to switch to intltool 0.51 and keep building out of
> tree.
> 
> The experiments I reported on that bug all date from before intltool 0.51
> got released.
> 
> Ideally we should dump intltool completely as it's no longer maintained. I
> did a few experiments today to generate our gnucash.pot file using gettext
> only but didn't get it right first time. So this needs some more
> experimentation. Frank's wiki page on this[2] has a very good summary and
> pointers to start from. As for the gettext version to set as baseline,
> based on Frank's summary ideally it should be 0.19.3. However if we stick
> with intltool, this can be relaxed quite a bit as in that case intltool
> will take care of all that has been added in 0.19. In that case RHEL/Centos
> 7's 0.18.2 is probably sufficient already.
> 
Forgot the distro list for gettext:
RHEL/Centos 7: 0.18.2
Mingw: 0.18.1 (Mingw64 has 0.19.8)
Debian stable 0.19.3
Ubuntu trusty 0.18.3
openSuse Leap 0.19.2

So moving away from intltool will be hard for now...

Geert