Re: [Po4a-devel]Re: Translating NEWS.Debian files: a (crude) first try
Hi
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
> While moving common parts of the scripts to this module,
I've found an
> undocumented option in the po4a script: split. What does it do? It adds a
> big amount of code. Should it be documented or is it there just for testing?
No, it's an attempt to keep all the strings in separate po files,
corresponding each to a given master file. But after this try, I realized
that it is impossible to merge the files back after a modification. I cannot
guess which of the proposed translations is the old one and which is the
brand new reviewed one. So, we have to put all translations in the same po
file (and kill this dead code).
I concur.
For some manpages translations, I was asked to split the big PO in smaller
ones. I used a small script to split, and merged with msgmerge -N (but
had to manually check the results after re-splitting).
Splitting may be convenient, but the merge is error prone and has to be
done manually.
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Nekral