[Scons-dev] SCons and intltool

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 19:12 +0200, Pawel Tomulik wrote:

> William,


s/William/Russel/ – but you already covered that :-)

[…]

> I wrote this gettext stuff some day, would be glad to help enhancing it 

> if there is a need. Looking for particular suggestions.

> 

> The gettext code required in SConstruct/SConscrit usually limits to

> two lines (Translate() and MOFiles()). The builders are described here:

> 

> http://www.scons.org/doc/2.3.0/HTML/scons-user/a8588.html#b-Translate

> http://www.scons.org/doc/2.3.0/HTML/scons-user/a8588.html#b-MOFiles

> 

> providing few more examples.


I will try things out more on a couple of projects to refine reactions
and then either make proposals or back off. If there are proposals, what
would be the workflow you'd want for collaborating on getting changes
into SCons?

I think much of my problem is installation as much as creation of the
translation files. Also support for translating desktop and schema files
is missing, but I am not sure just now how to fit that in.

I think I am also getting irritated by the whole LINGUAS and POTFILE.in
system Autoconf/Automake uses, which I suspect stems from them using m4
processing for everything. Or is it better to manually specify things
rather than try and deduce things from the filestore? 

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