On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de> > wrote: >> On 12.01.2011, at 19:07, Gary Martin wrote: >>> So activity developers/maintainers should never ./setup genpot, or commit >>> and push a .pot file when first building an activity? > > Gary -- correct. If github allowed hooks, I'd suggest a hook that > rejects pushes that change anything in the .po file (unless the pusher > is Pootle). > >> That's a very unusual setup. IMHO it should be the developer's choice when >> to generate the POT. > > Bert - I'm not an expert in PO and POT files, but Pootle seems to make > the assumtion that everything under the po directory, including the > POT file, is under its control. > > The POT file is generated automatically, based on your sources, so in > general this should not be an issue. Special cases do exist I am sure > :-) > > We could mess around with Pootle, but limited manpower from all sides > says... let's try to avoid it. To wit - I drafted a change that would > allow Pootle to override the POT file when necessary but I commented > out. > > One oddity with Pootle is that it seems to treat the POT and PO files > it works on as the main data repository. Initially I thought its main > data was in the DB, and it would export to POT & PO files; but > apparently that's not the case. The PO and POT files are the main data > storage. So I am very hesitant to change how they are managed. > > OTOH, I may have misunderstood the Pootle code, we didn't work in > depth on it :-) > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
What is strange to me is that from Day One I had been operating under the mistaken assumption that activity developers were suppose to push changes to the POT file (but not the PO files) and have been doing so. Why are conflicts only showing up now, and for only some of my activities? Or had Sayamindu been cleaning things up behind the scenes? -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
