Re: PO files are not updated automatically in SVN

["杨章" <zyangmath gmail com>]

Thanks so much. I have got the point now. The standard way should be co the whole source tree while for these don't want to check out the whole tree damned lies can be utilized. Maybe having some scripts auto-update the whole po directory should be really time consuming.

2007/8/15, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>:

Le mercredi 15 août 2007 à 19:21 +0800, 杨章 a écrit :
> Thanks for your reply. But I have another problem with this. Usually,
> I use "svn co svn+ssh://zyang svn gnome org/svn/software/trunk/po
> software-trunk" to check out only the po files. And there is the
> problem: intltool-update can not be run in this po directory directly.
> I suggest we use some kind of script to automatically update the po
> files, since check out the whole source tree is really time&space
> consuming.

There is already three possibilities for this:
1. using the method suggested by Iestyn (intltool-update)
2. merge yourself your po with the latest POT on Damned Lies.
3. if you have not yet worked on your po, you can pick the .po file
automatically merged by Damned Lies between the SVN po and the latest
POT.

I doubt that we need any other method.
>
Claude
>
> 2007/8/15, Iestyn Pryce <dylunio gmail com>:
>         Ar Mer, 2007-08-15 am 16:42 +0800, ysgrifennodd 杨章:
>         > hello, all
>         >        I used to start my translation from the po/pot files
>         from
>         > damned lies and everything is OK. But there has been
>         problems since I
>         > got my own svn account. It seems that the po files in SVN
>         are not
>         > automatically updated. For example. in gdm2-trunk (NOW), you
>         can find
>         > zh_CN.po with 970 items and zh_TW.po with only 781 items and
>         en_GB.po
>         > with 944 items. The POT-creation-date in their header varies
>         greatly.
>         > I wonder if there is a mechanism to automatically update all
>         the po
>         > files daily or after every string change or just after
>         string
>         > freezing. I do think that we need such a mechanism since
>         it's really
>         > terrible to manually download the pot file from damned lies
>         and
>         > msfmerge it and them "svn commit". I hope there is a way out
>         (or there
>         > is already a way ? please let me know, thanks ).
>         >
>         > Best wishes,
>         > Yours, YangZhang
>
>         I think one should use the intltool-update tool[1] for this.
>         You run it
>         in the po directory:
>
>         intltool-update languagecode
>
>         for instance:
>
>         intltool-update zh_CN
>
>         This updates .po file that language, so that you have all the
>         new
>         strings to translate (and old unneeded ones are removed).
>
>         Regards;
>         Iestyn Pryce
>
>         [1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/

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