Hello Dwayne,

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:38:40AM +0200, Dwayne Bailey wrote:
> Just a heads up and a request for help.
> 
> Some tasks that I need help with:
> * I'm using SWIG to create the Python wrapper and have hit my head
> against a brick wall and my almost zero knowledge of C, and the chill I
> get down my spine when I see pointers is not helping.
> * Packaging the swig building and gcc compiling so that we can integrate
> it into the build system.  I'm not a distutils expert.

I like both brick walls and pointers and I would like to help you in the
first task.

Could you make your work available (e.g. in a branch)?

> Issues:
> * Probably the biggest issue that will emerge from this work is a relook
> at how we handle PO files.  Its seems that Gettext is pretty
> unforgiving, while we accept PO files that aren't quite correct it seems
> that libgettextpo won't.  So we'd need to decide on how to handle that,
> a) fallback to Python, or b) change our expected behaviour.
> 
> If anyone can help with these I'd appreciate it.

I would not be really shocked by b), given that pootle does not generate
invalid PO files, pootle does not accept to import invalid PO files and
pootle warns the user and admin when an invalid PO file is found.

Thanks for your work,
-- 
Nekral

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