Hi, Le mardi 01 mars 2005 Ã 11:02 +0800, James Henstridge a Ãcrit : >Rodney Dawes wrote: > >>Currently, intltool is distributing the generated .gmo files, within >>tarballs. Christian Persch recently filed a bug against intltool, as >>this still causes some issues with builddir != srcdir. I'd prefer to >>not duplicate generated files if possible. If anyone has sufficient >>reason as to why they should be distributed, please speak up now, or >>I'm going to fix intltool to stop distributing them tonight, and make >>a release with some other fixes as well. The bug in question is: >> >>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166724 >> >> >I think the reason why gettext's Makefile.in.in distributes the .gmo >files is so that you can install the translations from a tarball install >even if you don't have the gettext utilities installed (msgfmt, etc).
Removing the .gmo files has been proposed before, in a thread about tarball sizes: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-October/msg00070.html It will lead to substantial decreases in tarball sizes. For example, I just stopped distributing .gmo files for Epiphany, and the tarball went from 3.628 MB to 2.768 MB (1.5.6 -> 1.5.7 .tar.bz2's). >From a follow-up to the above mail, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-October/msg00073.html : > As an experiment the gmo files were deleted from the gnumeric > tarballs. Nobody noticed they were gone. I think the tarball size savings are much more important than an added build dependency on gettext utilities. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
