Historically we have relied on autopoint/gettextize to install a
standard po/Makefile.in.in. There is very limited scope for customizing
this and it also causes a bunch of extra stuff to be pulled into
configure.ac which potentially clashes with gnulib. Writing make rules
for po file management is no more difficult than any other rules libvirt
has, so stop using autopoint/gettextize.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Libvirt translatable messages are maintained using the GNU Gettext tools and
file formats, in combination with the Zanata web service.
Source repository
The libvirt GIT repository stores the master "libvirt.pot" file and full "po"
files for translations. The master "libvirt.pot" file can be re-generated using
make libvirt.pot
The full po files can have their source locations and msgids updated using
make update-po
Normally these updates are only done when either refreshing translations from
Zanata, or when creating a new release.
Zanata web service
The translation of libvirt messages has been outsourced to the Fedora
translation team using the Zanata web service:
As such, changes to translations will generally NOT be accepted as patches
directly to libvirt GIT. Any changes made to "$LANG.mini.po" files in libvirt
GIT will be overwritten and lost the next time content is imported from Zanata.
The master "libvirt.pot" file is periodically pushed to Zanata to provide the
translation team with content changes. New translated text is then periodically
pulled down from Zanata to update the po files.
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