Re: How to use "--multiple-output"

[Takao Fujiwara <Takao Fujiwara Sun COM>]

Hi Danilo,

Thanks for your kind reply.

I saw gok and found this is functioned correctly about .xml.

Is the function for .xml.in planed for other extensions; .desktop.in, .schemas.in, etc?

As I wrote the previous mail, I need to think how to separate l10n packages from packages. Now we can separate messages files by locale because .mo
files are deployed by locale dir. But the multilingual files, .desktop, .directory, .schemas, .xml, are deployed as the consolidated file, so it is
difficult to separate them by locale.

I have one idea, it is that intltool-merge are invoked during installations. However to implement this, I also need to install .po files.

How do you think it?

I would like to implement:

 - users can install C locale only.
 - users can add to install l10n packages of a locale on demand.
 - users can remove l10n packages of a locale on demand.

Thanks,
fujiwara

Danilo Segan wrote:
> Hi Takao,
> 
> You should probably use intltool freedesktop org list for better
> (or at least more ;) responses.  Which reminds me that we need to say
> that in the CVS (I remember there's a mention of list somewhere in
> there).
> 
> 
> Today at 15:51, Takao Fujiwara wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would like to know how to use "--multiple-output".
>>
>>% env LC_ALL=C intltool-merge ../po gnome-cd.desktop.in gnome-cd.desktop \
>>  -d -u -p --multiple-output "es de"
>>
>>Now I tries to separate all locales from the multilingual files; .desktop, .xml,
>>.schemas, .icon..., by locale likes .mo files.
> 
> 
> "--multiple-output" works only for bare XML files (not for .schemas,
> .desktop, ...), and it was designed mainly to accomodate features
> needed by GOK keyboard definition files.
> 
> It creates a separate subdirectory named by the locale (i.e. "es",
> "de", "sr"), and puts the XML file with translations there
> (translations have attribute "xml:lang" set to appropriate locale
> name).  If there's no translation available for a particular element,
> it simply uses the original English string (and no "xml:lang" is set).
> 
> You may try building GOK from CVS to see how it works.  There's also
> one testcase in intltool/tests/cases/merge6.xml.in (look at
> intltool/tests/results/multi.merge6.xml for resulting file).
> 
> Of course, I'm talking about latest intltool here (0.31), since there
> were some changes in behaviour between 0.30 and 0.31. 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo