On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | They don't need to make a dist. Translaters are usually asked to
> | download a prelease (ie. a dist) and provide updated translations from
> | that. So the dist is the only place we need to ensure we have a
> | correct copy of POTFILES* and lyx.pot (no need for them in CVS).
>
> So anyone that wants to make an updated po file for the CVS version
> must first make a dist...
My head hurts from bashing it against a brick wall...
In the past, you have asked translaters to download a prelease dist
when you wanted them to do a translation. Hence, my suggestion that
the dist is the only place we really need to worry about.
How hard is it for a translater to:
cd po
make ./lyx.pot
Actually I think one of the older discussions spawned some changes to
the po/Makefile.in.in so that translaters had fewer things to do *and*
got an updated lyx.pot as part of the deal... hmmm...
make update-po
and
make no.pox
both force lyx.pot to be updated. So the steps are already there for
translaters such as yourself to also use CVS directly.
Again, I see no need for lyx.pot or POTFILES* to be in CVS. Please
enlighten me if I've missed something.
(Although as I said in my last email srcdir!=builddir is now getting
to be a problem because the generated form_*.[Ch] files are in
builddir which isn't currently scanned by the POTFILES.in
autogeneration -- and if we add that then we will start getting
thrashing of the POTFILES.in that is stored in CVS (depending upon
peoples builddir preference -- on top of any sort order problem that
may still exist), hence my suggestion we could go to manual
POTFILES.in and use $builddir in that file to get around this problem
(although it is only a moderate nuisance IMO))
> | It's taken a long time to get to a point where automatic updates are
> | starting to be a problem and then only because we are autogenerating
> | more of our code.
>
> Every time this topic is up I say "manually" and you say
> "automatically"... and the there goes a while and we do it again...
because it is far to easy to forget to add a file to POTFILES.in
when it is maintained manually
> (because I give in, and do not care enough)
Well here are a few unanswered questions/suggestions you let slide
last time:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg35837.html
Allan. (ARRae)
