Gettext: xgettext JavaScript scanner backend

[Andreas Stricker]

Hi

I've implemented gettext for a huge JavaScript application. I'm using
jsgettext [1] for the runtime. Instead of mo files it builds the
message catalog as JSON object from PO file.

For string message extraction I'll like to use the usual toolchain
especially xgettext. But - as you may have guessed - xgettext doesn't
recognize JavaScript syntax yet [2].

So I took a look at the scanner backends and finally added a new one
for JavaScript. It works quite well: Our hole codebase (40k lines)
was processed without any problems.

Well, the patch is there, sitting in my clone of the gettext GIT
repository (and is a bit huge to attach here). Whats you favorit
way to submit patches? Should I host my clone somewhere (my page
or github), or should I create a patch? Should I open an issue
on Savannah's bug tracker?

Regards, Andy

[1] http://jsgettext.berlios.de/
[2] Some tried to misuse C, Perl or Python, but this won't work well

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