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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
 	./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
 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
   -P, --pot                    only generates the potfile
   -M, --maintain               search for missing files in POTFILES.in
   -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 Christiansen
 
 
-kenneth@gnu.org  
+kenneth@gnu.org
 kenneth@gnome.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.