Re: moving po/Makefile.in.in to automake

[Denis Barbier]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:07:37PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Alexandre et al.,

Hi Bruno,

> The 8-year old way of distributing a PO file directory has several drawbacks:
>   - requires separate files (POTFILES.in, Makevars) for customization,
[...]

I can hardly see why this is a drawback.  You added support for a
separate po/LINGUAS file in 0.11, and it helped a lot.  Here you go
the opposite way, and I do not understabd why.  With your new scheme,
one has to re-run Automake and friends when a file is marked as
containing translatable strings.
Also did you talk to GNOME folks?  Intltool accepts some extra markup
in po/POTFILES.in (e.g. file type or encoding), and thus my guess is
that they prefer a separate file.

Denis