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Re: moving po/Makefile.in.in to automake
- From: barbier at linuxfr dot org (Denis Barbier)
- To: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:40:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: moving po/Makefile.in.in to automake
- References: <200311111307.38018.bruno@clisp.org>
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:07:37PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Alexandre et al.,
Hi Bruno,
> The 8-year old way of distributing a PO file directory has several drawbacks:
> - requires separate files (POTFILES.in, Makevars) for customization,
[...]
I can hardly see why this is a drawback. You added support for a
separate po/LINGUAS file in 0.11, and it helped a lot. Here you go
the opposite way, and I do not understabd why. With your new scheme,
one has to re-run Automake and friends when a file is marked as
containing translatable strings.
Also did you talk to GNOME folks? Intltool accepts some extra markup
in po/POTFILES.in (e.g. file type or encoding), and thus my guess is
that they prefer a separate file.
Denis