Location of i18n files

[Kai Blin]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 03:14:27 boyang wrote:
> Kai Blin wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I just stumbled over the fact that we seem to have two places where we
> > collect .po files for i18n support. source3/po seems to contain (mostly)
> > swat i18n, source3/locale contains the pam_winbind stuff. As I'm just
> > adding gettext support to "net", I'm wondering where that should go. I'm
> > happy to do the merging of the two dirs, I just wonder which of those to
> > keep.
>
> msg for swat is installed as it is to a different directory from
> pam_winbind's. po for pam_winbind are msgfmted. merging two types of
> files results in a little more complex install script..

The genmsg script looks pretty much the same for both files, at least the 
xgettext and msgmerge calls are. There's some minor differences.

> What's the plan? Does the directory look like this after merge:
> source3/po(or locale)/<module name>/*.po?
> ie, source3/po(locale)/swat/, source3/po(locale)/pam_winbind/,
> source3/po(locale)/net.

I think that makes sense, yes.

> And merge script/installmsg.sh, script/installmo.sh? we must
> differentiate the two types of files in the install script, for each
> kind of files added to source3/po(or locale), we have to add the module
> name to the one kind in the script.

I still fail to see the differences between the different *.po files.

Cheers,
Kai
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