Re: Improving GNUmakefile.team?

[Thérèse Godefroy]

Le 02/07/2019 à 14:14, Ineiev a écrit :
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>> So you mean that GNUmakefile.team is useless? Suppose a coordinator
>> wanted to synchronize the team's Git repo. Can this be done on the
>> server, without using Gettext at all on his machine?
> 
> Yes, this can be done on the server, without using Gettext
> on co-ordinator's machine,
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/gnun/html_node/Team_0027s-Repository.html#FOOT8

Wonderful! I missed that footnote.


> I believe the potential GNUmakefile.team user base is too small
> to justify the packaging efforts.  I can think of no more than
> 4 GNU teams who might take advantage of such packaging, and it
> would be definitely easier for me to add cron jobs for them
> in address@hidden than to produce a gnun-team.deb.

You are probably right. I didn't mean to produce a Debian package, but
only a small tarball. It wouldn't need to contain any Gettext element if
GNUmakefile.team didn't use gnun-diff-po (which calls
/usr/local/bin/msgcat). I'm not sure the notify target is very useful
either.

The tarball would contain:
* the simplified GNUmakefile.team,
* gnun-add-fuzzy-diff and add-fuzzy-diff,
* a script to create a www directory with POs, POTs, gnun.mk and
priorities.mk,
* maybe a README with a step-by-step howto.

The tarball would be extracted at the root of www-lang. To be of any
use, everything should work out of the box. Too bad it uses Make.

(In fact, I do the same thing with 2 scripts that can be launched from
the taskbar. I tried GNUmakefile.team yesterday on Turkish translations.
It doesn't look very promising.)


>> When I wanted to use msgcat and msgfmt 0.18.1, I found the binaries in
>> an old Debian package and copied them by hand to /usr/local/bin. Then I
>> tried to validate a few POs, and added the libraries that msgcat asked
>> for. And when I moved to another Debian-derived system, I copied the
>> whole thing again. No fuss.
> 
> Why did you want to use old Gettext in the first place?
> 
Because this is the one GNUN uses on the server for msgcat and msgfmt.
It has slightly different formatting rules, and I was fed up with French
POs being reformatted back and forth.

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