[systemd-devel] systemd and intltool

[Jan Synacek]

Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:

> On Thu, 10.09.15 19:10, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> reading https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration, it says
>> that intltool is practically dead and one should use gettext directly.
>> 
>> Do we still need intltool in systemd? Does gettext have support for
>> translating PolicyKit policy files?
>
> Happy to take a patch that removes the intltool hookup if it replaces
> it with the right gettext hookup instead.

I have investigated this a bit... AFAIK, gettext cannot be directly used
to parse and merge translations into XML files. However, a simple python
script instead of intltools should be enough for systemd's needs. I'll
investigate further and possibly submit a pull request.

-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat
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