Hello On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:18:42PM +0100, Valéry Perrin wrote: > Hello, > > > I do not fully understand this. Why is removing it a bad idea as > > it is regenerated anyway? > > There is at least three reasons : > > 1) All translators do not know how to create a pot file (for some > packets it's very difficult). If source package include pot file, this > is easier for them. In this case it is trivial. Just type make.
> 2) The translators teams use robots which automatically scan source > packages, search pot files and put these files "for translation" at > translators. If there is no pot file, the robot believes that the > package is not ready for the l10n and the packet has much less luck to > be translated in another language. Isn't it better to search for .po files ? Or even search for packages that depend on po4a ? I think this search tools is broken. > 3) The pot is always recreated at each build time by the maintener and > that allows all translators to work on the same pot (include in source > package) and not each one on a different pot according to the options > which they will have taken for pot file creating. I do not really understand this. The pot file will be recreated so patching that file do not help in this case. > Consequently, it is not essential to leave the pot but is much better to > do it. > > I hope that my explanations were lucid. It certainly did but I still do not really understand this fully. Regards, // Ola > Regards > > Valéry Perrin > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
