merged .po file from moz2po.

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:05 -0600, David Farning wrote:
> 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.

oo2po has a --multifile option.  It would be an option to abstract that
to cover moz2po.  That would sort out that problem for moz2po.

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Dwayne Bailey
Translate.org.za

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-- 
Dwayne Bailey
Translate.org.za

+27-12-460-1095 (w)
+27-83-443-7114 (cell)