El dv 19 de 04 de 2013 a les 23:46 +0200, en/na Claude Paroz va escriure: > Le vendredi 19 avril 2013 à 16:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > > There seems to be some confusion around GTK+ translations. > > > > To clarify: GTK+ is not using intltool. Please don't put any type > > annotations in POTFILES.in. That breaks the build. We handle > > extracting strings from ui files differently. The correct way to get > > an updated pot for GTK+ is as follows: > > > > make > > make -C po gtk30.pot > > Matthias, > > That new method to generate the pot file is problematic for GNOME > translations. > Until now, no GNOME modules require to be built to be able to generate > the pot file. And this has always been a rule we stick with whenever > some new module wanted to use the GNOME i18n infrastructure. > > That sort of design change is not something that should be taken > lightly. I think that requiring building a module to obtain the pot file > is bad for translators in general. It is then much more difficult for > translators to update translations themselves (almost impossible for the > majority of them). > Even at an infrastructure level, you surely know that building big > modules like GTK+ is often a challenge. And if then other modules begin > to use the same procedure, this will be a nightmare to maintain in the > i18n point of view. > > I'd like to ask the GNOME community to reconsider that change and do all > what's possible to keep the legacy way of generating translations. I'm > not particularly attached to intltool, so if we find another tool that > does a better job, why not. But let's try all possible solution that do > not require to build the modules themselves. > > Thanks for hearing us (me?). > > Claude
+1! Fine to move to something else, if *really* needed, but having different kinds of extraction tools and having to build the extraction tool itself seems overkill to me (and for most of translators I would guess). It's already easy, but hard for non-geek translators, to preview documentations (which are just a msgfmt -vc LANG.po && itstool -m messages.po -o . ../C/*.page) that if we have to ask them to build gtk+ just to get the translation file or to check if the file is up-to-date... Cheers, -- Gil Forcada [ca] guifi.net - una xarxa lliure que no para de créixer [en] guifi.net - a non-stopping free network bloc: http://gil.badall.net planet: http://planet.guifi.net _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
