On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 04:45 PM, Alan Horkan wrote: > for OR read AND > > i will still be using the .strings files directly :P > if i can force myself to work on the Irish localisation again. > > As i am not already familiar with gettext i dont see much benifit in > using it. Until you start mentioning tools like POEdit, i dont see any > particular benefits of using gettext (if you are not already familiar > with it). Perhaps someone will enlighten me.
The fact that external tools exist for translators to use is *entirely* the benefit of using gettext. This will allow us to: 1) Have translators use tools that they like and are familiar with, including all of their benefits 2) Drop our .po files inside of GNOME's CVS repository a few days before a release. Because of #1, translators will just translate all of our strings for us, and then we re-merge them. Completely effortless on our part. Relatively easier on our translators' parts. Still don't see any benefit? I see 2 *HUGE* benefits. Dom
