A little tool that helps to keep translations up to date

I don't know if my first message came out, since it was not sent from my 
"Freeciv" account... So I'm sending it again.
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Hi everybody,

I developed a small bash script to help me keep the French translations 
up to date. I did not occur to me that others may benefit from it, until 
my wife took a look at my screen and was amazed how well tooled the 
Freeciv translators are ;-)

So I thought I may send it to anyone who thinks they have a use for it.

What it does :

  * Updates your sources
  * Recompiles the sources (optionally from scratch)
  * (optionally) installs one of the extracted branches
  * Tells you the current status of your translations


Requirements :

  * Linux - on Windows, recent versions of cygwin will probably run it,
    but I never checked
  * An extract of the SVN repository - at least of the branches you want
    to check
  * A little configuration within the script itself to say where you
    extracted what
  * SVN, gettext and compilation tools installed

Here's what its output looks like :

> [ven. janv. 30 - 07:51:57] [jm@angelina] ~/.freeciv
> -> LANG=C fc-upd.sh
> Freeciv 2.4 :
> - Updating... done.
> - Compiling... done.
> - Translation status :
>   - po : 7208 translated messages.
>
> Freeciv 2.5 :
> - Updating... done.
> - Compiling... done.
> - Translation status :
>   - freeciv : 6061 translated messages.
>   - nations : 1844 translated messages.
>
> Freeciv 2.6 :
> - Updating... done.
> - Compiling... done.
> - Translation status :
>   - freeciv : 6217 translated messages.
>   - nations : 1844 translated messages.
>   - ruledit : 56 translated messages.
>
> Trunk :
> - Updating... done.
> - Compiling... done.
> - Translation status :
>   - freeciv : 6667 translated messages.
>   - nations : 1844 translated messages.
>   - ruledit : 55 translated messages.
>
>
> [ven. janv. 30 - 07:52:58] [jm@angelina] ~/.freeciv
> ->

(The LANG=C is only here to have messages in English - I guess most of 
you don't speak French)

It also accepts the following command-line arguments :

  * -c : do a distclean and an autogen before recompiling
  * -i <version> : install version (with sudo) after compiling (useful
    to test your translations... and play a little :-) ). Requires you
    to type your password when prompted.

At the moment, I'm not joining the script to this message, since I don't 
know whether anyone will be interested in it, and also because it relies 
heavily on my own environment (personal environment variables such as 
NB_PROCS that keeps track of the number of processors in the machine to 
speed up compilation, and so on...)

So... if anyone is interested... let me know :-) There will most 
certainly be a little work to make it portable... but it may be worth 
the effort.

Best regards,

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*Igx, The Dreaming Drummer...*([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)
Freeciv French translator

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