Re: The changes at GNOME 2.0 to use glib-gettextize

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 11/4/01 5:02 AM, Carlos Perelló Marín at carlos gnome-db org wrote:

> But the intltool-update is broken!!!

Well, we can get it fixed, but it's not my top priority.

Maybe you can get Jacob to fix it -- he's the one who added GETTEXT_PACKAGE
support to the rest of intltool.

>> The intltool-update script, which is a convenience for starting to use
>> intltool on a package for the first time, has no tests in the intltool tests
>> directory, and is something I've never used myself at all. I do by hand the
>> things that intltool-update does for you.
> 
> Then, How do you generate the .pot files?

The .pot file is generated as a normal result of doing a "make" for
developers. I guess I didn't realize how much translators depend on doing
the same thing with intltool-update.

>> I might eventually fix it myself, although I'd prefer to have some test
>> cases rather than changing the program without any tests.
>> 
>> You said "intltool-* use PACKAGE instead GETTEXT_PACKAGE". I'm pretty sure
>> that's only intltool-update, not the other scripts. If I'm wrong, please let
>> me know.
> 
> I haven't seen any intltool-* script that use GETTEXT_PACKAGE from
> configure.in, Well, I think that only intltool-update looks for the
> package name, so the other scripts are right (I think...)
> 
> Bye
> 
> P.S.: intltool-update is also broken for packages like Pan && libtop.
> P.S.2: I will fill a bug report today.

Sounds good.

    -- Darin