Re: Minimum required gettext and intltool version for Gnome?

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

петак, 08. август 2003. 22:17:28 CEST — Christian Rose написа:
> 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.
> 

Yes, that would be a nice thing.

> 
> > 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.
> 

Nah, I expresses myself a bit to vaguely. I meant that intltool-update 
I have didn't extract all the interesting strings from software's (eg. 
gnome-desktop) CVS. (And I almost complained that the gnome-about patch 
discussed today was not applied, before I noticed that my software is 
borking)

The problems with gnome-desktop and gedit were because they probably 
required at least xgettext 0.11.x ( in particular 0.11.5 did the work 
correctly, compared to the older 0.10.38), but I don't remember reading 
this anywhere, so I never thought there could be a problem.



> 
> > 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.
> 

Yes, so I'm probably using a bit outdated software :-) I'll try to 
follow that "latest" in the future, *before* I complain ;-)


> 
> 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.
> 

I've seen some of it, but I believe this was regarding use of UTF-8 in 
source messages. Though, this (require at least 0.12) might be a good 
thing, as long as it is documented as a prerequisite.


So, my message was more of a warning to translators: watch out if 
you're using old software: it won't even complain, but may fail (when 
it complains while failing, everything is ok -- you know something's 
wrong, as in a case of .lang files -- but it sucks when it doesn't).


Cheers,
Danilo

PS. Feel free to remove some of the CCs, because I'm not sure how 
relevant this is.