Re: Translation files .gmo and packaging

2023-01-31 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 at 22:59, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > In the case of ice-wm, it would seem that there’s the extra difficulty > that source is scattered in different places (where are the .po files?), > so perhaps that’s a case where you may want to use the tarball, possibly > discussin

Re: Translation files .gmo and packaging

2023-01-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Simon Tournier skribis: > What is the usual way to deal with these generated files? Can we > distribute them although it is not the Guix project that generates them > from source? In pure bootstrappable spirit, we should view tarballs as byproducts, not source, and thus depend only on t

Re: Translation files .gmo and packaging

2023-01-26 Thread Andy Tai
Hi, I wonder how is this different from the common practice of projects using GNU autotools, which the project in question is also one, that the Makefile.in was generated from Makefile.am, but the tarball may contain the "generated" Makefile.in and configure and Guix won't bother to re-generate the