Hi there, Gambas developers, We are using Gambas to develop BaShare (https://launchpad.net/bashare/), and we recently switched to Launchpad from Google Code. In the process of setting up the translations in Launchpad (where we could get the application translated by more people than if we required our translators to do it from Gambas, which means grabbing a copy of the trunk code etc...), we were faced with a semi-problem: Launchpad has the ability to automatically update the lists of translatable strings if the translation template (.pot file) is under version control. That way, when a change is made in the template, the new strings are immediately available to all translators.
However, Gambas by default "hides" the template in a hidden file inside a hidden folder: it is located at ".lang/.pot". Our guess was that Gambas tries to hide the file that are used by the IDE, but that does not make our work easier if we don't want to use Gambas' integrated translation feature. We tried creating hard links, symbolic links, but that failed when you try to version those files... We faced a first refusal to import our .lang/.pot template from the Launchpad team when we tried to get our doubly-hidden ".lang/.pot" translation template imported, because using this type of file name is not something that would be recommended in the Linux world. My question is the following: Is there (or would there be) an option to tell Gambas to automatically export (for instance copying the file, if necessary leaving the .lang/.pot file) the translation template to a file that is specifiable by the user? That way, Gambas would have it's copy to do internal translations, but other users could just have a simple access to the standard template file. As an example, the translation template could be saved by default at the root of the project in a file called "messages.pot" (this name is commonly used in open source projects that use translations with gettext, but there are also other possibilities). Anyway, I'd appreciate if someone would take the time to think about this idea (or tell me if this feature is already present ;) ) Concerning the version: I am using the latest available in Ubuntu repos (so I guess 2.8.2, but I'm not at my dev machine right now), but Guido uses the latest from the Ubuntu PPA, which should be the actual latest release? Thanks! Emilien Klein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
