Re: Cleaning out unused translations

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le 11.08.20 à 01:03, Florian Müllner a écrit :
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 20:58, Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org> wrote:
> > I must be missing something because all the changes in your MR have a
> > net increase of content (e.g. ar.po is
> > + 1538 - 682) so I would expect the translations to actually take up
> > more space after the update.
>
> Sorry for being unclear, I'll try to explain better.
>
> The merge requests changes the .po files, and they indeed increase in size:
>
> - new translated strings are added
> - translations for removed strings are commented out (but not removed)
>
> But both comments and untranslated messages are discarded when compiling
> the .po to .mo files, so the latter do get smaller (because the
> additions are not added, while message that were commented out are removed)

I support the position of Alexandre. What could be done if you really
want to create smaller .mo files is to merge existing .po files with a
fresh .pot file during the build process and before producing .mo files.

Claude
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