Re: [dcplusplus-devel] help translation

[Jacek S. <arn...@gm...>]

> as for translation, the gettext library wasn't originally designed for HTML 
> files; however, the po4a people <http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/> have 
> written Perl scripts that extend the usage of gettext to a bunch of formats, 
> including HTML.
Sounds reasonable

> i have committed some ground work to integrate po4a with our help; for now, 
> only the first step is possible, which consists of generating a .pot 
> template file using po4a-gettextize. it's about 300 KB, i've sent it on 
> <http://www.sendspace.com/file/o0czzb>.
> the next steps would be, if i understand the process correctly:
> - to send that dcpp-help.pot (keep it that name, or call it something else?) 
> file on Launchpad;
keep name

> - to create wrappers around po4a-translate that create new HTML files based 
> on translated .po files;
ok

> - to have the help SCons script copy these translated files in a temp 
> directory, so it can build a translated compiled CHM file;
that would be the build directory...I guess the correct way would be to define a builder like it's 
done for the other translations

> - to create wrappers around po4a-updatepo to update these .po files when our 
> HTML files change.
yes - same as with the other files, only build them when scons i18n is enabled...

> i'd like to know if my thinking is correct before going further...
> 
Hm, one thing to check is that the build doesn't fail if the scripts are missing...

> on po4a installation, i assume it is straight-forward on nix systems; i 
> installed it on Windows using Cygwin, only had 1 change to do: had to 
> replace all occurences of "::" by "." in po/pod.cfg.
> i also added a few batch files in Cygwin/bin with the same names as the po4a 
> programs (eg "po4a-gettextize.bat" for "po4a-gettextize"), so that they can 
> be called from outside the Cygwin Shell, each batch file containing:
> @echo off
> bash --login -i -c "cd '%CD%'"
> bash -c '%0 %*'
> echo on
> 
Maybe it works with activeperl? (for people that want to avoid cygwin)

> poy