[systemd-devel] systemd and intltool

[Jan Synacek]

Jan Synacek <jsynacek at redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

Submitted as https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1513.

-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat
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