Re: [vertimus] Merge uploaded file?

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le mardi 20 janvier 2009 à 17:37 -0200, Leonardo F. Fontenelle a écrit :
> Em Seg, 2009-01-19 às 22:36 +0100, Claude Paroz escreveu:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to know your opinion about the following matter:
> > - Should files uploaded by translators on the Vertimus section of
> > l10n.gnome.org be always merged with the latest pot file?
> > 
> > This would have the advantage of being able to do a better comparison
> > between files (same wrap policy, same line numbers, etc.)
> > On the downside, I'm always reluctant to modify files that claimed to be
> > 'owned' by a specific user.
> > Do you see major drawbacks to this updating?
> > 
> 
> I only see advantages. The only changes are in automatically extracted
> comments, which are not important if they are obsolete. I already do
> that (merge with latest POT) when I rview a translation (mine included.
> 
> I'm not sure if you're going to use python libs or command line for
> that; msgmerge doesn't seem to fix the lkine lenght for PO files edited
> with poEdit, so you might need msgcat file.po -o file.po

Thanks for the hint. Currently we're using a simple msgmerge. If you
find an example where this is not sufficient, open a bug report and
point us to the problematic case.

Claude