Re: Obsolete strings

Hubert Kowalewski writes:
> What is your policy about obsolete strings in PO files? In S2_5 and TRUNK,
> after placing nations in separate PO files, this section makes up almost
> 1/3 of the file. Choking Poedit and bloating the source code may not be the
> biggest problem if the obsolete strings are going to be useful in the
> future, [...]

This isn't a terribly complete answer (as you say, it's a busy time),
and doesn't address the wider issue of what to do with "real" obsolete
strings, but I wanted to quickly say now: the duplication of
translations into obsolete strings in every split file is part of what I
want to address about the split translations, although I haven't yet
figured out how I'm going to achieve this.

For files that no-one's worked on I want to re-do the split so that
every msgstr ends up in exactly one file. For cases such as yours where
you've already done work on S2_5 or later, we'll have to think of
something more clever.

One reason for keeping these pseudo-"obsolete" translations around would
be for strings that appear in multiple po-files. I want to avoid the
need for that with some workflow where a translation from one file makes
its way into the other, if it's not already there.

A little more detail (but not much) in <http://gna.org/patch/?4190>.

_______________________________________________
Freeciv-i18n mailing list
Freeciv-i18n-8nu/[email protected]
https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-i18n