[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Use pygettext to generate translatable strings from plugin files.

[Rob Crittenden]

Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:12:31PM +0100, Pavel Zůna wrote:
>> This goes on top of my other localization patches!
>>
>> This patch replaces xgettext with a custom pygettext to generate
>> translatable strings from plugin files in ipalib/plugins. pygettext
>> was modified to handle plural forms (credit goes to Jan Hendrik
>> Goellner) and had some bugs fixed by myself. We only use it for
>> plugins, because it's the only place where we need to extract
>> docstrings for the built-in help system.
>>
>> I also had to make some changes to the way the built-in
>> documentation system gets docstrings from modules for this to work.
>>
>> How to test?
>> ============
>>
>> 1)
>> First, apply all of the localization patches found in thread
>> "Localization patches" on freeipa-devel. Then apply this patch.
>>
>> 2)
>> Regenerate your install/po/Makefile:
>> - delete install/po/Makefile
>> - run `./configure` in install
>>
>> 3)
>> Regenerate the pot and po files:
>> - run `make update-pot` in install/po
>> - run `make update-po` in install/po
>
> I noticed that none of the .po files is regenerated when we run make
> dist. Is that intentional? I think that all the released tarballs should
> contain up-to-date translations.
>
>>
>> 4)
>> Make a change to one of the translations:
>> - example: add translation to the ACI docstring
>>    * find docstring for ACI in install/po/es.po
>>    * change the corresponding msgstr "" to
>>      msgstr "\nBuenos dias, amigos!\n"
>>
>> Note: if the translatable string begins with \n, the translation
>> also needs to begin with \n. Same goes for ending.
>>
>> 5)
>> Install the modified translations:
>> - run `make install` in install/po
>>
>> Note: I had some problems with this and had to make rpms and install
>> IPA from beginning for it to work. Looks like doing `make install`
>> manually updates /usr/local/share/locale instead of
>> /usr/share/locale, but maybe I just did something wrong.
>>
>
> ./configure --datadir=/usr/share
>
> My buildscript contains a variation of "rpm -E %configure".
>
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This was pushed with the mass of i18n patches