Re: question re: intl/ dir

[Bruno Haible]

Thomas Vander Stichele writes:

> Now, one of some of Gnome's developer's objections is that gettextize 
> touches po/ChangeLog, which they say should only be touched by humans.  
> Why did gettextize start doing this ?

Because ChangeLogs are the customary way to tell co-developers what
has changed.

Note that gettextize has a --no-changelog option.

> A personal question I have which I don't understand properly, is how 
> gettextize should now be used.  In the past I used to run gettextize as 
> part of autogen.sh on my projects.  It seems that this is not the right 
> way to do it.

It is not the right way, indeed. Please read the section "CVS Issues"/
"Integrating with CVS" in the gettext 0.11.5 manual.

> Am I supposed to run gettextize only once, and commit all of the resulting 
> files to cvs ?

Yes this is how it's meant:
  - Run gettextize once,
  - Update manually all that needs to be updated,
  - Call automake/aclocal/autoconf as needed,
  - Commit the result to CVS.

> The GNOME project's gnome-autogen.sh runs it each time in autogen.sh.

This usage of gettextize is obsolete. Refer again to the gettext
manual.

Bruno