#!/bin/sh # # Update/create voxelands po and pot files # # To update only the pot file, execute this script with `./updatepot.sh`. # You should do this with each modification, addition, or deletion of a # translatable string in the source code, to give translators the most amount # of time possible to translate it before the next release. (Transifex # automatically pulls that file) # # To update the pot file and source texts in the po files, execute this script # with `./updatepot.sh --po`. Though so long as we use Transifex, we shouldn't # need to use this option. # # To start a localization for a new language, create a directory for it in po/ # named as it's language code, then execute this script with # `./updatepot.sh --po`. But again, as long as we use Transifex, we shouldn't # need to use this option. # # In the above examples, I execute this script from the current directory, # however it can actually be executed from any directory. # # Because we use the --package-name flag, you must have xgettext>=0.17 for # this script to work. Use `xgettext -V` to check which version you have. # # an auxiliary function to abort processing with an optional error message abort() { test -n "$1" && echo >&2 "$1" exit 1 } # If flags exist, and are written incorrectly, abort. # Because this is currently the only flag available, I simply used a couple # if statements to make it work. However in the future, if we want more # options, we may need to switch to something more advanced, like getopt. if [[ -n $1 ]] && [[ ! $1 == "--po" ]]; then abort "'$1' is not a valid option" fi # The po/ directory is assumed to be parallel to the directory where # this script is. Relative paths are fine for us so we can just # use the following trick (works both for manual invocations and for # script found from PATH) scriptisin="$(dirname "$(which "$0")")" # Commands below are executed from the parent of po/, which is also the # parent of this script's directory and of the src/ directory. # We go through $scriptisin so that this script can be executed from whatever # directory and still work correctly cd "$scriptisin/.." test -e po || abort "po/ directory not found" test -d po || abort "po/ should be a directory, but is not!" # Create a list of the languages we have to update/create. # This assumes that we won't have dirnames with spaces, which is # the case for language codes, which are the only subdirs we expect to # find in po/ anyway. If you put anything else there, you need to suffer # the consequences of your actions, so we don't do sanity checks cd po || abort "couldn't change directory to po!" langs="" for lang in * ; do if test ! -d $lang; then continue fi langs="$langs $lang" done # First thing first, update the .pot template. We place it in the po/ # directory at the top level. echo "updating the pot file" # go to parent dir of po/ and src/ cd .. potfile=po/voxelands.pot xgettext --package-name=voxelands --copyright-holder="Lisa 'darkrose' Milne" -kN_ -kwgettext -F -n -o $potfile src/*.cpp src/*.h # We just updated the pot file, now update po files if --po was specified. if [[ $1 == "--po" ]]; then # Now iterate on all language dirs in po/ and create the po file if # nonexistent, or update it if it exists already for lang in $langs ; do # note the missing quotes around $langs pofile=po/$lang/voxelands.po if test -e $pofile; then echo "[$lang]: updating strings" msgmerge -F -U $pofile $potfile else # This creates a new po file and asks for the translator's identity echo "[$lang]: creating $lang localization files" msginit -l $lang -o $pofile -i $potfile fi done fi