[gst-devel] Is it possible to use intltool-update for translation?

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 00:15 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 01:10 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to extract, update and translate gstreamer's message stringgs with 
> > > intltool (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/intltool/)
> > > 
> > > Sadly, I get an infinite recursion - see the following bug entry:
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321785
> > 
> > Why are you doing this ?
> > 
> > > Is there a different way to do the extraction and update besides going through 
> > > the build procedure?
> > 
> > Probably.  But again, why ? :)
> 
> Because if translators had to build everything they translate, they'd be
> like Gentoo users, compiling until their CPU melted.

I must be missing something.  I send update notifications to the
translation project, they extract pot files and put them online, and
they have a whole infrastructure so that all translators need to do is
translate the file.

Why would a translator suddenly manually have to extract files ?

Thomas


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