Re: AbiWord Windows builds and L10n workflow

Prashant Bafna wrote on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:39:36 +0530:

> 1. About the Perl script ui-backport.pl - I was getting basename
> related errors while running this on Windows, so i modified it a bit
> (Suggested Patch Attached), so as to make it work in Windows as well.

Besides some cosmetic issues, it's ok and committed.

> 2. To convert the PO file to Strings files during the build, I created
> a Post Build event for LibAbiWord which runs the above Perl script and
> converts the PO files to Strings files

Seems ok to me, this is basically what the Linux build process does.
Please commit.

> However what we have done here is made Perl a requirement for the
> Windows build, which earlier was not the case.

Yes, but we have a Perl requirement for the Linux build as well.
This is the price to pay for on-the-fly .strings files.

Ingo