Re: Bug#114019: gettextize will not preserve changes to po/Makefile.in.in, and has no way to be told of extra keywords for xgettext (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

> Some programs need to change the invocation of gettext() from _() to
> something (e.g. tue to the DES libraries of kerberos using _() in some
> incarnations).
> gettextize will lose that information, which is in po/Makefile.in.in.

gettextize is a wizard, but without artificial intelligence. Some
local intelligence is still needed.

> It should have an option switch to inform it of a new set of keywords to use
> instead of the default _() and N_() in po/Makefile.in.in's invocation of
> xgettext.

That's too complex. Careful maintainers keep a patch set versus the
original version and reapply this patch set each time they upgrade.

> it causes silent breakage

Not true. gettextize says: "Copying file po/Makefile.in.in". You can't
say that's silent.

> [ Please keep the Cc: lines ].

Your CC lines have been lost through the mail -> archive processing.

Bruno