Re: Orphaned translations in gnome-core

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

Den tir, 2001-09-04 kl. 00:19 skrev Carlos Perelló Marín:
> El d_ 04 Sep 2001 00:01:58 +0200, Kjartan Maraas escribi_
> > Den man, 2001-09-03 kl. 23:20 skrev Carlos Perelló Marín:
> > > El d_ 03 Sep 2001 21:32:14 +0200, Kjartan Maraas escribi_
> > > > Hi.
> > > > 
> > > > I added support for .desktop, .directory, .soundlist etc files in
> > > > gnome-core today. This resulted in a few translations getting orphaned
> > > > since the strings in the .desktop etc files had no .po file to be merged
> > > > into.
> > > > 
> > > > This was the case for the following translations:
> > > > 
> > > > br, es_ES, hr, id, is, pt_PT, vi, vi_VN.TVCN, vi_VN.VISCII and
> > > > zh_TW.Big5
> > > > 
> > > > I'm wondering what to do with these...
> > > 
> > > You should upload the new files that xml-i18n-prepare has create.
> > > 
> > 
> > You mean turn them into .po files and commit them along with changes to
> > configure.in to support these new languages? That leaves the question of
> > what to do with the three different vietnamese translations...
> 
> 
> Well xml-i18n-prepare creates .po files if they aren't there before the
> "change" don't you have those .po files?
> 
> Well, I think that you shouldn't add it to configure.in, if someone
> needs it, then he/she will update this translation and also add it to
> configure.in (for example I want to see the es_ES because perhaps I
> could remove it because es.po is the same...
> 

The problem is that if the file is added to the po/ dir it breaks make
dist because you get an error if there are files in po/ that don't have
a corresponding entry in ALL_LINGUAS. At least that's what I think is
the case...

I'll wait until tomorrow and think it through.

Cheers
Kjartan