Re: AbiWord Windows builds and L10n workflow

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Ingo Brückl <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Chris Leonard wrote on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:59:29 -0400:
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>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Ingo Brückl <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Chris Leonard wrote on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:28:00 -0400:
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>>>> 2) What is the best approach ot solving this issue for the long term
>>>> and addressing the needs of both *nix and Windows builders?
>>>
>>> Fix the Windows build to generate the .strings files. Only Perl is needed
>>> for the generation so it shouldn't be a problem.
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>> That sounds great, can you offer a more  detailed description of the
>> preferred  the solution (or possibly a patch?).
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> How could I? I haven't even seen a bug report on this (although carefully
> following this developers list), so I don't know how and why the Windows
> build fails. It would be helpful if these kind of problems would be addressed
> here.
>

Actually the change Simon brought in (r30739) was not adapted for the
windows installer. I discovered that yesterday while doing the windows
build which shot up an error as it is still configured to use the
strings from user/wp/strings. Marc & I discussed about this a bit
yesterday on irc, and we didn't really see an easy way to generate
them on the fly on windows but if you or someone else has an idea to
implement this or the perl scripts during the windows build please go
ahead and make the necessary changes.

Thanks,
Prashant