Re: [Monotone-devel] Translations revisited

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:49:49PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Also, please do not bother preserving Makevars, LINGUAS, or any other
> such construct that is not actually necessary.  In my ideal world,
> merely adding a .po file to the subdirectory would suffice to get it
> compiled to .(g)mo and installed.

We should preserve one part of Makevars -- we need some special
options to xgettext (to tell it that strings passed to P(), etc., are
translation candidates).  See the giant comment on the
XGETTEXT_OPTIONS variable in Makevars for the annoyingness surrounding
this.  (In particular, the part where we must keep a file named
Makevars that contains an XGETTEXT_OPTIONS variable.)

-- Nathaniel

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