On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:21:29 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: > Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> writes: > > > • I post-process the .pot template generated by xgettext and insert > > the correct copyright notices: this can be done by hand (boring and > > error prone!) or automatically, for instance, with some sed or awk > > trick > > I don't think it is boring nor error prone -- it just means to > concatenate two files.
Well, not really just a file concatenation... More a job for sed or awk, as I said. But this would be the case, if you automated the task. I am convinced that doing the substitution *manually* is indeed boring and error prone. > As long as you use autotools, it would be > automatically done by po/Makefile.in.in installed by autopoint. You know, users of xgettext do not necessarily also use autotools... > > So, my question was, why it is not sufficient for your use-case? Is > there any practical reason you have to call xgettext individually, > e.g. your build system doesn't support post-processing for some reason? I am not thinking about a build system with no post-processing support. But what strikes me as weird is that xgettext has some support for inserting appropriate copyright notices, but then leaves the job half-done for all but very simple cases. > > > At this point I am really puzzled. The --copyright-holder option is > > currently inadequate to make sure the .pot template file has the > > correct copyright notices in place. > > The current behavior of --copyright-holder is useful for some use-cases, > e.g., FSF-copyrighted packages (like coreutils, gettext), where > translations are also attributed to the same copyright holder. In that > case, it is natural to leave the responsibility to rewrite YEAR to the > translators. But, as I said, there are many less simple cases out there. Please support these cases as well, at least by adding a --same-copyright option (without arguments) that produces a .pot file with # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER replaced by # This file is copyrighted by the PACKAGE package's copyright holders # and by the translators listed below. Of course, PACKAGE should be replaced by the argument of the --package-name option, where available. Could at least this be done? Thanks for your time and patience. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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