> On Dec. 4, 2015, 9:35 a.m., Chusslove Illich wrote: > > The KI18N_INSTALL macro is also used by KI18n itself, to install its own > > translations. And so do other higher-tier frameworks. So I'm not sure when > > this no-Gettext/no-Python build is supposed to be useful. When one wants to > > omit translations? > > Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > I _never_ install translations. Where would I install them from? Running > "make install" in ki18n doesn't install translations, as far as I can see? I > thought translations get installed by the distribution, or I package them > manually for Windows and OSX. > > So, when I build Krita on OSX or Windows, I first need to build the > dependencies, and ki18n is one of them, but because it mixes up translation > management with providing the translation framework an application uses. So > why should I build Python and Gettext and QtQML for parts of this framework > that never get executed? > > Chusslove Illich wrote: > For me "make" does build translations using msgfmt, and builds some other > translation-related files using a Python script, and "make install" installs > those built files. > > Something is definitely going wrong if QtQML is seen as dependency. What > is needed is QtScript, and that is a real dependency, used at runtime by > translations. It can be disabled, but that will cause degradation in quality > of some translations. > > Chusslove Illich wrote: > Hm, where do you fetch the frameworks to build from? If from the Git > repositories, there are no translations there. But the release tarballs do > contain translations. > > Only Applications are released with separate translation packages. (Which > I think is not a good thing, but hell...)
Always from git. - Boudewijn ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126230/#review89109 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Dec. 4, 2015, 12:17 a.m., Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126230/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Dec. 4, 2015, 12:17 a.m.) > > > Review request for Build System, KDE Frameworks, Aleix Pol Gonzalez, > Chusslove Illich, and Luigi Toscano. > > > Repository: ki18n > > > Description > ------- > > When building ki18n as a dependency framework for shipping with an > application, the tools to actually create and manage translations are > superfluous. These tools have some big dependencies that are a pain to have > around, especially gettext on Windows. This patch makes the requirement for > Python and Gettext optional. > > This patch checks the BUILD_TESTING variable to see if the autotests should > be built, because when we just need the library to build an application we > shouldn't waste electicity building the tests (and the Qt5::QML dependency). > > > Diffs > ----- > > CMakeLists.txt 59917fa > cmake/KF5I18NMacros.cmake 53ba812 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126230/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > > Thanks, > > Boudewijn Rempt > >
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