Re: Should project.pot file be in SVN?

[Gabor Kelemen <kelemeng gnome hu>]

Daniel Elstner írta:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit confused by the advice given in this document:
>
>     http://www.gnome.org/~malcolm/i18n/index.html
>
> For one thing it says that my project's .pot file (regexxer.pot) should
> be used as a template for new translations.  It also seems to be used to
> generate the i18n status packages.  However, this file is generated by
> intltool-update (all the *.po files are regenerated too).  The i18n
> document advises not commit to the po/ directory.  But if I don't commit
> these changes, will translators actually notice that an update is in
> order?
>
> I would be glad to get some advice on this issue.  Thanks a lot.
>   
The i18n document is right; pot files should not be in svn.
Also, you don't need to manually update/commit any translation files 
after you add some strings to the program. The updated translation files 
are automatically regenerated by progress.gnome.org, then put on status 
pages, thus we can notice they are changed and update them accordingly.

To be short, you need only care to update POTFILES.[in|skip] and mark 
all user visible strings for translation - everythig else works 
automatically.


regards

Gabor Kelemen