[Alexandria-list] Where is the .pot file

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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Hi Leandro,

(Just to note: Ruby is not a compiled language, but the 'build process'
does generate some Ruby files and compiles the PO files into MO files.)

I imagine that the issue of whether to keep the POT file in SVN is
largely a matter of taste. I'm just following the practice which
existed before I came to the project (alexandria.pot is in
po/.cvsignore - from the old days when Alexandria used CVS).

However, keeping the POT file in SVN shouldn't be necessary:

 * If translators want to keep up to date as development proceeds, it's
not too much trouble to run 'make po' once in a while - this will
automatically generate the POT file (if you have the requisite gettext
software installed) from the Ruby and XML files.

 * In most cases (for existing translations), translators don't need to
deal with the POT file, since at around the time of a "string freeze" I
run 'make po' and check in the up-to-date PO files (or, I do when I
remember at any rate...) and it's the PO files the translators work
with.

In any case, that's how it works for the moment, and I have no
immediate plan to change it. It seems to work well enough for the
current translation team.

By the way, this discussion could equally have taken place on the
alexandria-i18n-list, but I suppose it's an source control & admin
matter rather than strictly to do with translations.

   -   Cathal.
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