Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>
>> Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> | On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| [...]
>> >> So the solution is either to make all generations of this document to
>> >> use the same sorting rules, _or_ to not have this file automatically
>> >> genereated, but manually edited/created instead.
>> >
>> | _Or_ not have it in CVS.
>>
>> That is the worst option since we will have a _very_ hard time to get
>> a updated lyx.pot that we are confident that are correct.
>> (currently it is not because of the xforms/forms_* changes)
>
| I'm not sure I understand you here. If we continue to auto-generate
| POTFILES.in but don't have it in CVS we always keep it up-to-date as
| we do now (so long as people run make from $top_srcdir -- which they
| need to to make a dist)
Why should they need that to make a dist?
| *but* we don't have to worry about sort order
| induced conflicts on updates (like I got yesterday) and so have a
| simpler handling (no need to make sure every possible 'sort' results
| in the same order).
with a manually created POTFILES.in you would never get conflicts,
unless you make them yourself.
| lyx.pot is regenerated when a dist is made -- such as for a
| pre-release. Translaters are encouraged to use the dist tarball. If
| lyx.pot and POTFILES* are included in the dist the translaters use,
| where is the problem?
>
| The only problem we really have now is that sort order varies from OS
| to OS. How does that affect whether we trust lyx.pot? If lyx.pot is
| regenerated when a dist is made why would we not trust it? --
| especially if the autogeneration of POTFILES.in has been working
| successfully for some time now.
The main problem we have no is that the forms_* files will not be
included in the POTFILES.in.
I do not trust the autogeneration...
| I automated the update of POTFILES.in etc. because there were
| complaints that doing it from autogen.sh (effectively manually)
| meant
That was far from manually... I regret the day that I make POTFILES be
updated automatically.
--
Lgb
