Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>
>>> Translations should only be done on Launchpad from now on. Manually
>>> editing the .po files should not be done.
>> Unfortunate that it is one-way.
>
> I don't understand the objection. .po files are not source; they are
> generated from .pot files. The .pot files are two-way; I can upload a
> more recent version of the .pot, and only the changes will be
> visible; existing translations in all the languages will not be
> affected.
The .po files are source for the translations to a specific language.
Traditionally (sans services like Rosetta), the language teams would
edit the .po files directly and then commit their changes, merging with
the version in the repository.
The objection is that we are gaining the benefit of Rosetta (definite
benefit, mind you) but losing the ability to edit the source .po
directly if we prefer.
The .pot files are the source for the .po files, but the .po files are
still source.
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