xml_mimetypes5 and kcoreaddons

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 15 de juliol de 2020, a les 12:24:34 CEST, Harald Sitter va escriure:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 12:39 AM David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > On mardi 14 juillet 2020 19:35:41 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > El dimarts, 14 de juliol de 2020, a les 15:14:38 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va
> > escriure:
> > > > We're playing with translations in neon packages and looking at
> > > > kcoreaddons
> > > > the tars have
> > > > xml_mimetypes5
> > > > But we can't see anything in the code which uses this.  Do these
> > > > translations get used?
> > >
> > > Yes, the translations are used.
> > >
> > > No, they don't need to be on the tarball.
> > >
> > > The translations are used at scripty time to to fill
> > > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/-/blob/master/src/mimetypes/k
> > > de5.xml
> > >
> > > Luigi recently did a change so the files ending in _xml_mimetypes.po don't
> > > get added to the release service tarballs.
> > >
> > > This didn't work here because a) KF5 is using a different branch of
> > > release-tools b) the file doesn't follow the same naming pattern than the
> > > rest of xml mimetype files we have.
> > >
> > > If DavidF is fine adapting his scripts to not release files ending in
> > > _xml_mimetypes.po (i.e. him or someone else patches the scripts) i
> > > volunteer to do the small patch for src/mimetypes/XmlMessages.sh to rename
> > > it.
> >
> > Fine with me, but don't we have more cases of the same kind, with different
> > names? Any case of translations being "integrated" into some file leads to
> > this. Desktop files, mimetype XML, is there really nothing else?
> 
> It's a bit more "fluid" than one would hope. Looking at
> update_translations the following patterns exist:
> 
> - created by XmlMessages.sh unfortunately arbitrary named files but
> largely using the standard suffix Albert mentioned (the only other
> violation I can find with lxr is kpat)
> - created by StaticMessages.sh also arbitrary, only used for websites
> I think (?)

It's used for more things, e.g. kdeconnect-android

StaticMessages is a bit of a DIY import/export for files that need to be extracted to .po and then imported in "random" file formats.

Cheers,
  Albert

> - ._desktop_.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped
> - ._json_.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped
> - .appdata.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped
> - .metadata.po automatic - shouldn't be shipped
> 
> (of course also Messages.sh with arbitrary naming, but that's the
> regular translations so they need shipping ^^)
> 
> HS
>