> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 16:18, Denis Prost <
denis.prost@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 27/10/2010 09:31, Denis Prost a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 26/10/2010 18:30, Denis Prost a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le 26/10/2010 17:51, Robert Xu a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:32, Denis Prost<
denis.prost@wanadoo.fr>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Le 25/10/2010 23:00, Robert Xu a écrit :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:37, Denis Prost<
denis.prost@wanadoo.fr>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can the trinity developers take care of that ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think you should be able to compare with other po files and add
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> yourself :P
>>>>>>> I'll test for any breakage, if you desire.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure I understand what you say. Do you mean adding new
>>>>>> strings
>>>>>> one
>>>>>> by one by hand in the po file ?
>>>>>> First, I might miss some new strings doing it that way.
>>>>>> Secondly, each trinity translater will have to do that manual
>>>>>> strings
>>>>>> adding
>>>>>> in his language po files. Seeing the number of languages trinity is
>>>>>> translated into, that seems to be a terrible waste of time.
>>>>>> A centralized process adding new strings to all po files in any
>>>>>> languages
>>>>>> would be a lot more efficient. I can't imagine there's no automatic
>>>>>> way
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> achieve this. But unfortunately I don't know how and don't have much
>>>>>> time to
>>>>>> investigate. I hope someone on the list has some knowledge about
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> topic.
>>>>>>
>>>>> hm, maybe Trinity could do something like Fedora does?
>>>>>
https://translate.fedoraproject.org
>>>>>
>>>> I can't tell myself, but surely a clear translation process providing
>>>> all
>>>> instructions needed would help.
>>>> (not forgetting that translators are just translators and may be very
>>>> ignorant besides !).
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Denis
>>>>
>>> Maybe what we're looking for is here :
>>>
>>>
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/kde-i18n-howto.html#SECTION00050000000000000000
>>> especially chapter 3 about Makefile.am.
>>> As far as I understand (I just checked quickly) It seems that "make
>>> messages" should be run periodically on the source tree by its
>>> administrator
>>> to update the pot files, followed by some command to merge the new pot
>>> files
>>> with the existing corresponding po files for each language (at present
>>> time,
>>> the po files seem to exist only in kde-i18n directory as tarballs :
>>> maybe if
>>> they existed as untared in svn, it would be more easy to do the merging
>>> and
>>> then for the translators to update them.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Denis
>>
>> As long as there is no centralized process to update the po files, I'm
>> trying to do it myself, but I don't know enough of the development tools
>> to
>> achieve it. Maybe someone might help me :
>> I'd like to run "make messages" in kdebase/kicker source directory, but
>> there is no Makefile in it, only Makefile.am. How can I generate
>> Makefile
>> from it, what command should I run ?
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> I recommend asking Timothy Pearson on how to do this.
> You can see this:
>
http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild
> and it'll tell you have to run make -f admin/Makefile.common....
> Then from there I suppose you could look at Makefile.in and such.
>
> --
> later, Robert Xu
>