Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:53:00 +0200
> 
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii writes:
> >
> >  > I didn't know gettext supported message strings in comments.  Does
> >  > it?
> >
> > gettext() itself obviously doesn't, since comments aren't executable.
> > Extraction tools like xgettext should, they aren't supposed to parse
> > the text beyond the _() macro.
> 
> It is not required to use xgettext for message extraction, you can just
> as easily roll your own.  It should be trivial to extend make-docfile to
> emit POT files as well.

If we don't use xgettext to gather the strings, and if we don't use
the `gettext' function to print the translated strings (because the
original one is not in the code generated from the C sources), then we
are not really using gettext, are we?