On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 08:09:36AM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: > Hello Jelmer, > > On 22/11/2022 00:49, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 09:19:41PM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: > > > On 19/11/2022 18:20, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > > > Package: wnpp > > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Owner: Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org> > > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > > > > > > > * Package name : setuptools-gettext > > > > Version : 0.0.1 > > > > Upstream Author : Breezy Team <breezy-c...@googlegroups.com> > > > > * URL : https://github.com/jelmer/setuptools-gettext > > > > * License : GPL > > > > Programming Lang: Python > > > > Description : Compile .po files into .mo files > > > > > > > > This extension for setuptools compiles gettext .po files > > > > found in the source directory into .mo files and installs them. > > > > > > How does this tool differ from 'msgfmt' from 'gettext'? > > > > It's a wrapper around msgfmt, but making it convenient to run from > > setuptools. > > I'll clarify that in the final description. > > Sorry to bother you again. > > Today I found the following post: > https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/python-subprocess-module > > Wouldn't this package effectively be 'subprocess.run("msgfmt")'? > Or would the package name 'python3-gettext' be more suitable?
It's specifically an extension to setuptools to do these things and integrate with the python ecosystem. It's /not/ a generic module for compiling gettext files. For the latter, the name python3-gettext would indeed be more appropriate and I'm not sure whether it would be more than a wrapper around subprocess. Jelmer
