[Gpe-list] adding autotools support to GPE apps

[D Marlin]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Philippe De Swert
<philippedeswert at scarlet.be> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  > I have been looking at adding autotools support to some of the GPE
>  > applications and libraries that currently do not have it.  Attached is
>  > a patch for gpe-calculator.  It adds an autogen.sh script,
>  > autoconf/automake files, and i18n template files (but no translations,
>  > yet).  Please let me know if you are interested in this type of work.
>
>  Well this stuff is always welcome. Especially if the translations are missing.
>  However it seems that your patch got eaten by the mailing list.

I was afraid of that.

>  > If so, I have started working on patches for some of the other GPE
>  > applications as well.
>
>  I did not know there were some many apps missing autotools and translations.

Although I may be missing the obvious, I did see a few that did not
appear to have autotools support (or any translations).  It is
possibly that no translation is needed, so feel free to ignore any
parts that are unnecessary.

The packages I was looking at (without autotools support) are:

  gpe-calculator
  gpe-confd
  gpe gallery
  gpe-irc
  gpe-mixer
  xst

Not a long list.  There may be a few others, but these are the ones
I've been working on.

>  > Also, if you are interested, I know someone who is willing to provide
>  > Spanish translations for the untranslated GPE applications.  They have
>  > not done i18n translations before, but are willing to give it a try if
>  > interest is there.  I can submit those patches as well.
>
>  Well I think that we have been doing quite good for Spanish. I should
>  doublecheck with Miguel Menéndez aka mimecar (irc nick) what is done there as
>  I believe he has been doing some work in that area already.

Again, some of the above mentioned applications do not appear to have
any translations in svn, but they may have been deemed unnecessary.
Specifically, I was looking at:

  gpe-calculator
  gpe gallery
  gpe-irc
  gpe-mixer

It is not just Spanish translations that are missing (there are no
translations for these), but Spanish is the only one I could possibly
get translated, so that's what I mentioned.  If Miguel is working on
these, then I'll just pick them up from svn later, but if he does not
have time, I will be glad to give it a try.  Miguel can always make
corrections later if I mess up.  :-)

>  > Please let me know if this type patch, and patch format, are acceptable.
>
>  Send it inline in your mail, because I am afraid attachments will be dismissed
>  by the mailing list.

I'll try it again, possibly using a different email client.

>  Regards,
>
>  Philippe
>
>  PS: And of course thank you


Thank you for the reply and suggestions,

d.marlin