Re: Minimum required gettext and intltool version for Gnome?

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

fre 2003-08-08 klockan 21.40 skrev Danilo Segan:
> I've noticed that my gettext and intltool versions don't catch all the 
> strings. The particular problem was with a large number of .lang files 
> in gtksourceview,

Yeah, we're trying to poke the intltool maintainers to do a new (badly
needed) release (see the mail on Aug 1st;
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml-i18n-tools/2003-August/msg00000.html). So far without success.


> but now I noticed that even gnome-desktop and gedit 
> have strings which I didn't get with intltool-update on CVS.

Not even with intltool CVS? Whoa. I guess the only reasonable answer is
"file intltool bugs". Feel free to cc: menthos@menthos.com.


> So, are there any official prerequisites for performing Gnome 
> translation?

The only prerequisites I know of is 1) the latest released intltool
version and 2) any gettext that makes that intltool version happy, I
think.


> It's pretty shitty when you cannot trust intltool-update to perform The 
> Right Thing, and it can even screw up something (eg. some translations 
> will be obsoleted which should not).
> 
> For the record, I was using GNU gettext 0.10.38 even though I had newer 
> releases in private/separate directories. With eg. 0.11.5 it works 
> fine, but I don't remember hearing anything regarding this issue?

I believe there were some discussions and even outstanding patches to
make intltool require GNU gettext >= 0.12 (see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99005), but I don't think that
has been committed yet. The intltool maintainer, Kenneth, is
unreachable.


Christian