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Re: I18N: automatic determination of potfiles list
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:33:51AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > Assuming this patch is acceptable, I would like to set up automatic
> > updating of gcc.pot through the snapshot script or some other
> > mechanism. The file currently in the tree is perennially out of date.
> > [It may even make sense to run msgmerge automatically against the
> > translations that we do have; I'm not sure what the issues are there.]
>
> Automatic updating in CVS, or removing it from CVS and doing automatic
> updating of the copy on the Translation Project site?
I was thinking automatic updating in CVS. I'm not sure how we should
interact with the Translation Project.
> > Related notes: At this time xgettext does not know how to parse Ada and
> > therefore the Ada front end cannot have its messages translated. I'm
> > not sure what should be done about that.
>
> Does the Ada front end contain any support for translation anyway?
I have no idea - but if it goes through diagnostic.c it shouldn't need
any special adjustments.
zw