On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:12:31PM +0100, Pavel Zůna wrote: > This goes on top of my other localization patches! > > This patch replaces xgettext with a custom pygettext to generate > translatable strings from plugin files in ipalib/plugins. pygettext > was modified to handle plural forms (credit goes to Jan Hendrik > Goellner) and had some bugs fixed by myself. We only use it for > plugins, because it's the only place where we need to extract > docstrings for the built-in help system. > > I also had to make some changes to the way the built-in > documentation system gets docstrings from modules for this to work. > > How to test? > ============ > > 1) > First, apply all of the localization patches found in thread > "Localization patches" on freeipa-devel. Then apply this patch. > > 2) > Regenerate your install/po/Makefile: > - delete install/po/Makefile > - run `./configure` in install > > 3) > Regenerate the pot and po files: > - run `make update-pot` in install/po > - run `make update-po` in install/po
I noticed that none of the .po files is regenerated when we run make dist. Is that intentional? I think that all the released tarballs should contain up-to-date translations. > > 4) > Make a change to one of the translations: > - example: add translation to the ACI docstring > * find docstring for ACI in install/po/es.po > * change the corresponding msgstr "" to > msgstr "\nBuenos dias, amigos!\n" > > Note: if the translatable string begins with \n, the translation > also needs to begin with \n. Same goes for ending. > > 5) > Install the modified translations: > - run `make install` in install/po > > Note: I had some problems with this and had to make rpms and install > IPA from beginning for it to work. Looks like doing `make install` > manually updates /usr/local/share/locale instead of > /usr/share/locale, but maybe I just did something wrong. > ./configure --datadir=/usr/share My buildscript contains a variation of "rpm -E %configure". _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel