Re: gEDA-dev: gEDA/gaf's make maint removes required files

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 12:28 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> [snip]
> >Intltool does this unfortunately:
> >
> >It is called from any of the clean targets, including "make clean"
> >
> >I'm guessing this is because the .pot files are auto-generated.
> 
> I'm not up on intltool yet, but auto-generated from what?

I'm not 100% familiar with the build process, but I presume it extracts
them from the C and other source files listed in the POTFILES.in file.

> I'm okay with removing auto-generated files from the repository.

The one benefit I see is allowing translators to pull the .pot file from
the gitweb for translation. On the other hand.. we don't keep it up to
date until just before a release, so this isn't a great problem I guess.

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Peter Clifton

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