On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:58:26 +0100 Mihailo Stefanović mikis@mikis.org wrote:
Would it be good to automatically commit updated messages to CVS (after possible approval) or just provide way to generate updated file to commit?
It would be nice to be able to commit messages automatically, and skip few boring steps (see above :)).
You should have in mind that several similar systems exist already, like Rosetta (https://launchpad.net/rosetta), primary translation system for the Ubuntu Project and hundreds of other open-source projects. I don't know if it would be possible (possible it is, but is it easy enough?) to import PMA language files to Rosetta, and export and commit them later. Also, too bad the Rosetta software itself is not open-sourced, so you have to use their system, on their servers.
Well I tried to use Rosetta for other project using gettext and they still didn't accept it, so I'm not going to do through long registration to gain nothing...
Then there is Pootle (http://translate.sourceforge.net/), but it is written in Python, and is not quite there yet.
Yes, I wanted first look at existing projects, however I expect there will be much work to port it as most of them expect gettext files.