Re: [Adonthell-devel] Data update

[Alexandre Courbot]

I've done a little extra French translations. The intro, and the bits
characters says when doing their business.

I've also fixed Orloth's schedule. The sentence "That clock is late
again!" weren't taken by pygettext.

Which showed weird behavior when trying to update the fr.po file. First,
wastesedge.pot didn't seem to automatically get updated by make. I did a
make wastesedge.pot-update in po/ to update it. Also, I was unable to
update fr.po by make. The Makefile looks weird to me concerning
msgmerge:

MSGMERGE = msgmerge
MSGMERGE_UPDATE = : --update

Is MSGMERGE_UPDATE correct? Not only it doesn't call msgmerge, but also
my msgmerge doesn't support the --update option. Any idea Kai? My
version of gettext is too old, maybe?

> >From what I understood, you may submit your .pot file and everything
> else is taken care of by them. Which, to tell the truth, is quite nice,
> as we have to take care of enough other things already :). I'm not sure
> how they'll react when seeing the wastesedge.pot as it's probably larger
> than the ones they usually get. I hope they'll take it as a welcome
> change from translating stupid error messages and the like.

Uh, cool! But they should be able to send us the po files back, and
continue the work that have been started (especially on the French
translation ;p). I'm browsing the site right now, to understand the
exact procedure, but it looks cool.

> If nobody has any objections, I could send them our potfile. Probably
> tomorrow, as it requires uploading the whole wastesedge package to a
> place where they can get it, and I cant do this at home.
> 
> We also need to decide if we want a disclamer from the translators
> stating that their translation will stay free. If we want that (and I'm
> for it) only translators that sent such a disclamer to the FSF may work
> on our .pot file. That doesn't require any further actions from us, but
> will give us some additional safety.

In this case, the translations would be (C) by the FSF, right? I'm fine
with it, that way everybody could work on them.

> Anyway, we need not rush this. Let's here what the others say first. Do
> you also have the impression that we currently have the ML for us alone,
> Alex? ;)

Somehow :) This probably means everybody else is working hard, and will
have plenty of new stuff to show when they come back! ;)

But seriously, I'll have to stand a little more away during a few days
too, as I spent all my hollidays on Adonthell, but have to do some
university work too. I'll try to keep progressing on the Windows version
however.

Alex.
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