merged .po file from moz2po.

Le samedi 12 novembre 2005 à 16:05 -0600, David Farning a écrit :
> One of the remaining problem areas in using rosetta to translate firefox
> is the fact the moz2po creates an individual .po for each .dtd
> or .properties file in the mozilla tree.  This, as I understand it, is a
> problem because launchpad uses one .po file per application.
> 
> I have been looking at the source code of the translation tools (moz2po
> and po2moz) for the feasibility of creating a single large .po directly
> form moz2po.
> 
> Currently moz2po chugs recursively through the mozilla tree looking
> for .dtd or properties files. When one is found a new file of the same
> name with with .po appended is created in the po tree.
> 
> It looks pretty straight forward modify the source to append a chunk to
> an existing .big.po instead of creating a new file in the output(po)
> tree.
> 
> I have not worked very much with rosetta yet.  I am wondering if anyone
> see any obvious short comings to this approach.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Will rosetta blow up if a .po file has two matching msgids?

If you use xgettext to merge .po files instead of just appending files,
you shouldn't obtain two matching msgids.

But I never try to split again the files after translation, it may be a
problem...

Claude