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Remove documentation for desk.pl. Remove references to configure.in.

Pavel Roskin 21 years ago
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@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-The po/ directory includes two perlscripts, which is done to help 
-making the translations fully uptodate.
-
-The first script is called update.pl and is supposed to be run like this:
+The update.pl script is included here.  This script should be run like
+this:
 
 	./update.pl [OPTIONS] ...LANGCODE
 
-This will updates the pot file (the po template, generated from the source code) 
-and merge them with the translations po files.
+By default, this script updates the pot file (the po template generated
+from the source code) and merges it with the po files (translations).
 
 For instance to do this for Danish, type the following
 
@@ -20,39 +18,20 @@ The update.pl script also supports other options, they are:
   -P, --pot                    only generates the potfile
   -M, --maintain               search for missing files in POTFILES.in
 
-Especially the --maintain option is very handy for package maintainer, to check
-if you included all the files that have marked strings in the POTFILES.in, so
-they will be in the generated po template, the socalled pot file.
-
-There is though one thing to take notice of with this option, please check the 
-configure.in file to make sure that the files you add to POTFILES.in are being
-build, otherwise this can leed to "make dist" throuble.
-
-
-The other utility is the desk.pl script, which will check the cvs module for
-missing translation in files like *.desktop, *.directory, *.soundlist and so on.
-
-Run the script like this:
-
-	./desk.pl [OPTIONS] ...LANGCODE ENTRY
-
-An example use could be.
-
-	./desk.pl da
-
-which will check all the files for missing Name[da] entries, or 
-
-	./desk.pl no Comment
+Especially the --maintain option is very handy for package maintainers
+to check if you included all the files that have marked strings in the
+POTFILES.in, so they will be in the generated pot file (po template).
 
-which will check all the files for missing Comment[no] entries. "Comment" can
-here be replaced with whatever you like
+You should make sure that the files found by the update.pl script are
+either distributed or always create during the build process.  Otherwise
+"make distcheck" may fail preventing the release.
 
-All scripts support the --help option for further help, though it's not very
-extensive for the moment.
+The script supports the --help option for further help, though its not
+very extensive for the moment.
 
 Kenneth Christiansen
 
-kenneth@gnu.org  
+kenneth@gnu.org
 kenneth@gnome.org
 
-Both scripts are copyright 2000 The Free Software Foundation and me.
+update.pl is are copyright 2000 The Free Software Foundation and me.