On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: >> Should gnulib generate .pot and maintain its own translations? > > That's been proposed, yes, but nobody's gotten around to doing > it.
I take it that the project is not against to such changes if someone does it. > Translators have to deal with the problem of > shared strings independently of gnulib so the problem is not > as big a deal as one might at first think. Well, each package tends to be assigned to a translator. If gnulib changes one string, that string may be translated twice by two different translators. Shared strings (in shared libraries for example) tend to be packaged with the library. Translators do not need to deal with them again. -- Duy
