Re: gettext 0.11.3b2: autopoint problems

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Smith writes:

> I'm a big confused as to why it's trying to do CVS lookups, but
> regardless that part of the code is definitely not working.

It should work in the forthcoming 0.11.3.

> It's trying to grab the code associated with a label it constructs from
> the version number.  There are two problems:
> 
>  1) The construct does not properly modify - to _; instead of
>     "gettext_0_11_3_pre2" (which is what I think I need based on the
>     current labels) I get "gettext-0_11_3-pre2".

There is nothing wrong with that. Dashes are valid characters in cvs
tags.

>  2) There is no label applied to the CVS tree for this pretest release.
>     In fact I don't think there's a label applied for the gettext-0.11.2
>     release either.

There will be cvs labels for all official gettext releases; you only
get the problem because you are using the snapshot.

> requiring that you _must_ have successful net access to the CVS
> repository before you can build _IS_ a big problem:

That was not intentional; I'll be 'unset'ting sufficiently many
environment variables to avoid this unwanted behaviour.

> Again, as with gettextize, I wonder if this isn't a case of the tool
> trying to be too smart.  As a maintainer's utility gettext really must
> trust the user.  This is not an end-user, newbie-type tool.

Please read the doc again. 'autopoint' is an automatic tool,
'gettextize' is an interactive one. Both are designed to be "newbie"
safe.

Bruno