From d5404ffe578668a72154e513ffae33758437d77a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Christiansen Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:04:27 +0000 Subject: Added readme file, which explains the use of the newly checked in po MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 2000-06-05 Kenneth Christiansen * README.tools: Added readme file, which explains the use of the newly checked in po tools. hmm, looking forward to tomorrow...viva los compleaños! :) svn path=/trunk/; revision=3428 --- po/README.tools | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) create mode 100644 po/README.tools (limited to 'po/README.tools') diff --git a/po/README.tools b/po/README.tools new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4ec99c1640 --- /dev/null +++ b/po/README.tools @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +The po/ directory includes two perlscripts, which is done to help +making the translations fully uptodate. + +The first script is called update.pl and is supposed to be run like this: + + ./update.pl [OPTIONS] ...LANGCODE + +This will updates the pot file (the po template, generated from the source code) +and merge them with the translations po files. + +For instance to do this for Danish, type the following + + ./update.pl da + + +The update.pl script also supports other options, they are: + + -V, --version shows the version + -H, --help shows this help page + -P, --pot only generates the potfile + -M, --maintain search for missing files in POTFILES.in + +Especially the --maintain option is very handy for package maintainer, to check +if you included all the files that have marked strings in the POTFILES.in, so +they will be in the generated po template, the socalled pot file. + +There is though one thing to take notice of with this option, please check the +configure.in file to make sure that the files you add to POTFILES.in are being +build, otherwise this can leed to "make dist" throuble. + + +The other utility is the desk.pl script, which will check the cvs module for +missing translation in files like *.desktop, *.directory, *.soundlist and so on. + +Run the script like this: + + ./desk.pl [OPTIONS] ...LANGCODE ENTRY + +An example use could be. + + ./desk.pl da + +which will check all the files for missing Name[da] entries, or + + ./desk.pl no Comment + +which will check all the files for missing Comment[no] entries. "Comment" can +here be replaced with whatever you like + +All scripts support the --help option for further help, though it's not very +extensive for the moment. + +Kenneth Christiansen + +kenneth@gnu.org +kenneth@gnome.org + +Both scripts are copyright 2000 The Free Software Foundation and me. -- cgit