[Scummvm-devel] Fwd: Found cause for translation problem

[Thierry Crozat]

Hi all,

Was there a change recently (or not so recently) in the way the
Windows executable is compiled on buildbot to include the data files
inside the executable (I remember seeing a discussion about this
somewhere)?
If so this is an issue for the translators as they cannot test their
translations without submitting it first and waiting for the daily
build to be available (or compile it themselves). This is sub-optimal
(see also the email below). Would it be possible to at least give
precendence to an external translations.dat file if it is available?

Thierry

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Simon Sawatzki <SimSaw at gmx.de>
Date: 20 June 2011 09:16
Subject: Found cause for translation problem
To: Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org>


Hi Thierry,

just found out what is the cause for why I don't get the new strings
translated: The translations.dat seems to be built INSIDE the
scummvm.exe, so it just ignores all my external translations.dat
files. Is there no way to turn it off? Could you turn it off in the
git branch? I think it should be done this way in the development
versions so that all translators can download the version created by
buildbot, use the translation tool and create a translations.dat for
testing and then use it to test their translation.

Kind regards
Simon
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