Re: WhosWho: a free software to create whos's who / yearbook / facebook in PDF format (again)

[Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>]

Le 31/01/2022 à 18:27, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit :
> [Yvan Masson]
> > As I believe WhosWho can be of interest for Debian Edu users, I am
> > asking for help: I am currently stuck at building the software with
> > translations done on Weblate (particularly to generate .desktop file and
> > Appstream metainfo file) and more generally to provide a proper build
> > system. I suppose this should be done by improving setup.py, but could
> > not find how. Note that I am not a programmer, so my skills in this
> > domain are really basic.
>
> I started by completing the Bokmål translation on
> <URL: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/whoswho/#components > and hope
> others will complete the translation into their languages.

Thanks!
> Happy to help, but I do not really understand the problem.  Can you
> explain what you want to do, what you are doing, and list the output you
> get when you do it?  Feel free to ping me on IRC (#debian-edu?) if you
> want to do this interactively.
I really appreciate. I am not really at ease with IRC, so I will do my 
best to explain on the list:

Concretely, after translations are done on Weblate, I am able to `git 
merge` the changes to my git repository (I know this can be done 
automatically but it is not a big deal to do it manually for now). After 
that, I know that I should use `msgfmt` command from GNU GetText to 
produce .mo files for each language. I believe I do it properly, even if 
I have not tested the result yet:

$ cd WhosWho/translations
$ langue=fr
$ msgfmt $langue.po --output-file=compiled/$langue/LC_MESSAGES/whoswho.mo

Then, I think I should run two similar `msgfmt` commands, to 
respectively produce whoswho.desktop and Appstream .metainfo.xml files. 
I can not find the proper syntax to run those commands, and can not find 
the proper syntax for XML and .desktop "templates" (as named in `msgfmt` 
manpage).

Then, I am absolutely not sure if my project structure is correct: 
`WhosWho/WhosWho/translations/compiled/the_languages/LC_MESSAGES/whoswho.mo`

Also, I don't know if the resulting files (.mo, .desktop and 
.metadata.xml) should appear in my git repository or not.

Finally, I suppose it is better to handle all the `msgfmt` commands in 
the `setup.py` script I use to produce the .whl file, but I don't know 
if there is a standard way to do so.

Hope it is clear enough :-)

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