nc6.pot (was Re: [ds6-devel] i18n branch)

[Chris Leishman]

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 05:25 PM, Simone Piunno wrote:
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> No, .pot must be generated only when developers want to, and it's
> debatable that tarball release is a good generation point.


Ok - sorry for the confusion.  I think I've got it now.

The .pot file contains the messages scattered through the code (duh - 
obviously) and is the template for creating translation .po files.  But 
we can't expect the translators to keep track of all the source 
changes, so we only update the template when we think it's appropriate 
for the translators to update the .po files.

Hence we stick .pot in the CVS, and only update it when we need to.  
Thats probably why the gettext macros and Makefile.in.in only create 
the .pot file on demand and don't remove it with clean (or 
maintainer-clean).

Again - sorry I didn't pick up on all of that straight away!

Regards,
Chris