[libvirt] [PATCH] i18n: simplify mini po generation
Daniel P. Berrangé
berrange at redhat.com
Tue May 21 08:34:12 UTC 2019
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 02:59:27PM -0500, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:14:32AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:56:01AM -0500, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> > > If you pass --for-msgfmt to msgmerge it will automatically do most of
> > > what you had the perl script doing.
> >
> > What msgmerge are you using as that option doesn't exist on Fedora 30
> > at least ?
> >
> sys-deve/gettext-0.20.1 from gentoo. Didn't realize an update snuck in
> on me while doing this testing.
Ok, I'm afraid we can't rely on that as we need to build with much
older distros - RHEL-7 for example.
> > > Signed-off-by: Marty E. Plummer <hanetzer at startmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > The only downside I can see is the loss of the comment headers with the
> > > copyright year and such. A global note in the README.md or so may be an
> > > acceptable change.
> >
> > Removal of copyright strings is a no-go, as that is a violation of
> > licensing terms unless it is your own copyright notice you are
> > removing.
> >
> >
> Here's an idea I came up with to avoid this: move the copyright stuff
> out of a comment and add it to a translatable string, like so:
That's changing the format of the file which is not something I
wish to do. Since we can't rely on that new gettext it doesn't
really matter though, since we can't take this approach at all.
Regards,
Daniel
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