Re: [bug-gettext] .twjr=awk support

[Daiki Ueno]

Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

>     listing options after ':' sounds like a better idea.
>
> If you decide to go down this road, it belatedly occurs to me that |
> might be a better delimiter than :, as being perhaps less likely to
> occur in file names.
>
> Also, as you imply, having --options after the delimiter sounds much
> better than my half-formed idea of random new keywords.  As in:
>
>    texindex/ti.twjr|--language=awk --keyword=...

Thanks for the suggestion.  Indeed, the format needs to be carefully
thought out, if we embed such meta-information in file names.  On the
other hand, I fear that that might confuse wrappers like intltool and
might break backward compatibility.

So, my current idea is to have a separate file listing options,
analogous to .gitattributes:

  *.twjr --language=awk --keyword= ...
  *.cpp --keyword ...

where glob patterns are allowed to avoid repetition.  The drawback is
that we need to add another option (e.g., --options-file) to xgettext
and a user needs to check if the option is available.

Other ideas are welcome.

> Implementing all that in a separate script sounds nicer than trying to
> merge it into that already-too-complex .pot-update Makefile rule :).

Yes, that sounds a good idea.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno