Re: create compendium automatically

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:57:37PM +0200, Danilo Segan wrote:
> ??????????a, 28. ?????????????????? 2003. 18:12:22 CEST ??? pclouds 
> ????????????:
> >Is it possible to create/maintain a compendium for each language?
> >GTP keeps a compendium for each language. Then every time translators
> >commit their translations to CVS, their translations will be
> >automatically added to the compendium of their language.
> >I would like to create a compendium to keep all translations we have
> >made. Because, when applications evolve, some translations will be
> >marked obsolete, and they may be removed by accident. Compendiums can
> >also help msgmerge to get better results.
> 
> While that's certainly a good idea, it's not really realistic.
> 
> With the "compendium" consisted of all the translations performed thus  
> far for Serbian language, I've discovered that doing a msgmerge on  
> *untranslated* file of some 500 strings took around two hours on my  
> home Celeron 700MHz (and the CPU was at 100% at all times, so it's not  
> a memory or disk issue).

I think the compendia are a good idea, but it seems like we need to do
some optimization on the code, eg by employing database techniques.

best regards
Keld