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[Michal Hruby <michal.hruby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/04/14 06:29, Martin Pitt wrote:
> David Planella [2014-04-15 17:20 +0200]:
> > - Create a cmake rule to generate the .pot file, based on [3] and add
> > another rule that calls intltool-merge to put the translations into the
> > final .ini file at build time
> For scopes in click apps this seems fine to me, as they should be
> self-contained, are created by third parties, and aren't covered by
> language packs.
>
> For scopes in the Ubuntu archive I think it would be better to just
> reference the translation domain in the .ini file, similar to our
> .desktop files. Then they can be covered by langpacks and we wouldn't
> need to update all click apps for new translations.
>
> Same story as for Ubuntu classic really :-)

Agreed, having a common langpack makes sense here, afterall the same .mo 
would probably be already loaded by something else. But I'd consider 
this an exception rather than the rule.

> > We think using this option (inline translations in the ini files vs reading
> > the translations from .mo files) is the best solution in terms of
> > performance when reading the list of scopes, but we'd like to hear other
> > comments/views too.
> I think the performance question is largely irrelevant. You are going
> to open both files at runtime anyway, you most likely have other parts
> of your click package than the ini file which have translatable
> strings). Also, the disk space for inline vs. .mo translations for a
> few strings isn't going to reach a significant size.

I don't think the perf question is irrelevant, yes, for the apps/scopes 
themselves it is (afterall they don't even have a reason to read the ini 
file), but for processes that actually list all the installed 
scopes/apps, it does mean mmapping 100 extra files (if you have 100 
apps). Was there ever a measurement how these types of apps are affected?

> So I think which approach to use should be decided based on how we
> want the translation lifecycle/rollout to look like only.
>
> Martin