Hey, we are using inttool in gedit and we don't have problem with osx or win32.
Regards. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> wrote: > Anybody jhbuilding GNOME will have run into problems with .po file > conflicts in gdk-pixbuf, where building it causes local changes that > conflict with updates from translators. Finally got annoyed enough to > track down the problem. > > The unique characteristics that gdk-pixbuf has that causes these > problems are: > > * It uses the upstream gettext Makefile.in.in not the GLib > Makefile.in.in or the intltool Makefile.in.in > > * The .pot file isn't checked into Git > > The upstream Makefile.in.in is designed so that when the .pot file isn't > there, it's generated, and the .po files are updated a single time. > > (The upstream Makefile.in.in also has another incompatibility with > the GNOME internationalization workflow - it runs update-po on 'make > dist') > > Possible fixes: > > A) Check in a .pot file. But this leaves the 'update-po on dist' > problem. [This is the state of affairs of Clutter] > > B) intltoolize gdk-pixbuf, even though it doesn't need anything, so we > get a non-annoying Makefile.in.in. [This is the most common > thing in GNOME probably] > > C) Don't intltoolize gdk-pixbuf, but check some better > Makefile.in.in into git so autopoint doesn't replace it. > [This is the state of affairs in GTK+. Just copying the > Makefile.in.in from GTK+ would presumably work fine.] > > B) is probably cleanest; I don't know if it will cause problems for > people [cross]building gdk-pixbuf with mingw or building on OS X. > > I haven't suggested going back to glib-gettextize, since that's been > something people have been trying to get away from. > > - Owen > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > -- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
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