[bug#28423] gnu: Add imb-openmpi.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Dave,

Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ping!  :-)
>>
> I think I was waiting for an explanation

You didn’t ask though, did you?  ;-)

> of the doc string rules for translation, and why they seem to be
> different from what gettext say in terms of placeholders in format
> strings.  I think that needs documenting anyhow.

In po/packages/Makevars, we define only two keywords for translatable
strings: ‘synopsis’ and ‘description’.  Thus, xgettext will extract this
string:

  (synopsis "This is translatable")

but it will not extract this:

  (synopsis (string-append "This is " "not translatable"))

I’ve added a note in the manual (below).

HTH,
Ludo’.

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index c57c0bab6..9e301d007 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -19147,6 +19147,18 @@ Translation Project} so that as many users as possible 
can read them in
 their native language.  User interfaces search them and display them in
 the language specified by the current locale.
 
+To allow @command{xgettext} to extract them as translatable strings,
+synopses and descriptions @emph{must be literal strings}.  This means
+that you cannot use @code{string-append} or @code{format} to construct
+these strings:
+
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+(package
+  ;; @dots{}
+  (synopsis "This is translatable")
+  (description (string-append "This is " "*not*" " translatable.")))
address@hidden lisp
+
 Translation is a lot of work so, as a packager, please pay even more
 attention to your synopses and descriptions as every change may entail
 additional work for translators.  In order to help them, it is possible