Removing line numbers from po files ?!

Roland Illig roland.illig at gmx.de
Mon Jul 11 22:13:15 UTC 2005


Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> 
> Why are you removing all line numbers from the po files?! When doing a
> translation it is very useful to know where the string being translated
> is used, to make sure you're actually translating the correct string.
> Please don't do this any more!

Please have a look into maint/RELEASE_PROCEDURE. There are two kinds of 
releases, one of them explicitly marked as "translator's prerelease".

I stripped the line numbers because they change too often, and without 
them we can look at the diffs of the translations.

By default, line numbers are generated when you do "make update-po" in 
the po/ subdirectory, so there is no problem generating .po files 
containing line numbers.

Roland



More information about the mc-devel mailing list