>> [: Daniel Mustieles García :] >> I've been talking with with Claude about the possibility to add a header >> (maybe «X-Location»?) to PO files (both GUI and doc ones) containing the >> folder in which the PO file is located [...] > > [: Kenneth Nielsen :] > [...] > On another subject remember that it is also the plan to at some point make > it possible to commit translations directly from damned lies, in which > case this problem will become a lot smaller, so that probably makes it > even less likely that we should solve it by imposing location rules on a > lot of projects. This topic is a recurring motif, e.g: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2008-11/msg00030.html which I argued to go beyond the needs of a particular translation project and therefore deserve full-fledged support from xgettext/msgmerge: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6099532 Failing that, I would make translation-side automatization (Damned Lies in this case) introduce an X-Source-Root custom header field, with some sort of URL to which the source references in the PO file are relative to. Where possible, this would be a web-accessible URL, for example: "X-Source-Root: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-games/plain/po\n"; This would enable any kind of scripting which needs to connect to the location of the sources while working on an isolated, out-of-tree PO file. This includes automatic committing desired by Daniel, but it does not stop there. For example, a PO editor could use it to show source on demand for a given message, with a single shortcut, reliably and without any preparation. Hence it would be useful regardless of whether translation-side automatization can automatically commit or not; and it would not impose any restrictions on source trees of particular projects. -- Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)
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