RFC: an improved ki18n_install

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2023-03-07 13:12, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 7. März 2023, 02:51:06 CET schrieb Aleix Pol:
>> Having ninja/make do this dependency generation can end up being more
>> work than worth it because then we need to have a static list
> 
> Such static list could be generated by scripty when it updates the po/ 
> folder
> and stored there, no? Which then could be sourced by the ki18n_install 
> cmake
> code in some way.

That sounds like a good solution, one could just emit some CMake file to 
include
that contains the call to the ki18n_install helper with the right args, 
then on the outside one would just
need to add the po dir and be done.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> I'd urge to use the existing tools like make/ninja as much as possible 
> instead
> of reimplementing their logic partially and maintaining a 
> non-integrated sub
> buildsystem, with all the shortcomings and fails.
> 
> Thanks for working on this in any case, the current state is far from 
> ideal.


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