Re: [Jmol-developers] Modelkit menu entries

[Nicolas V. <nve...@gm...>]

2010/6/2 Angel Herráez <ang...@ua...>

>
> > Question: If you introduce translations that later get removed, are they
> removed, or do they pile up
> > as unused garbage?
>
> Sometimes. This has happened before.
> If I'm not wrong, unused terms are kept in hidden text entries in the po
> file. That's why
> sometimes you get suggested translations for new terms that existed in the
> past. On the
> other hand, I have the feeling that the Launchpad system may be clearing
> those hidden
> entries.
> Anyhow, they could be cleared manually --if needed-- before compiling, or
> maybe the build
> system discards them anyway. Nico?
>

You're right : unused translations are kept by default but Launchpad removes
them (at least from time to time).
But keeping them shouldn't have any impact on the the .jar files : the used
translations in the .po files are compiled into Java classes and only the
classes are kept in the .jar.

Nico