Re: AbiWord Windows builds and L10n workflow

>> 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.
>

Thanks Ingo !

>> 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.
>

Will commit it to the MSVC trunk in a bit.

>> 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.
>

Yes, I'll add this to
http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Developing_AbiWord_on_Windows_using_Visual_C%2B%2B
 as well.

Thanks,
Prashant