[Zope-dev] Re: zope.app.locales i18nmergeall.py not used anymore?

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 2008-04-26 10:25:16 +0200, Christophe Combelles <ccomb at free.fr> said:

> Maurits van Rees a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> zope/app/locales/TRANSLATE.txt says:
>> 
>>   ...
>>   After that, you need to merge those changes to all existing
>>   translations.  You can do that by executing the ``i18nmergeall.py``
>>   script from the ``utilities`` directory of your Zope 3 checkout:
>> 
>>     $ python utilities/i18nmergeall.py -l src/zope/app/locales
>> 
>> So I tried that and found that in the 13 po files that are present,
>> over 80 thousand lines were changed (counting all lines in an svn
>> diff).  Since the files combined have about 100 thousand lines, this
>> could be called a fairly big change. :)
>> 
>> So: is there a reason this merging is not regularly done anymore?  Or
>> can I just go ahead and submit those 80 thousand lines?
> 
> It seems too big, that's weird.
> I think merging is not really done, and there are several changes to do 
> f or i18n:
> 
> - split the "zope" gettext domain into all the separate namespaces. 
> Maybe  only zope.app.* packages can be kept under the "zope.app" domain.

I think each and every package should have its own domain. Should we 
just start with that for 3.5 packages? Would this break anything?

> 
> - find a way to generate the .pot and .mo files at build. They should 
> not  be stored in the svn. We should only have the translated .po 
> files, and the  merging and compiling should be done during build. 
> Maybe the .pot file could be a lso stored but this is not really 
> necessary.

Yeah, the .mo files don't need to be stored indeed. But that's not 
really high priority I think.

> 
> - add an automatic test in each package to check whether the .po files 
> ha ve been merged by the developer. If a po file is not in sync with 
> the code, the t est fails. This would allow all the .po files to be 
> always up to date.


Actually I don't really use the merge script. I prefere using somethink 
like poedit and its "update from pot file" feature. This also tells me 
what I have to translate and what is gone.




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