[Po4a-commits] po4a po4a,1.29,1.30

Martin Quinson po4a-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:14:50 +0000


Update of /cvsroot/po4a/po4a
In directory haydn:/tmp/cvs-serv29255

Modified Files:
	po4a 
Log Message:
Document the dataflow to explain that this tool cannot be used to gettextize (Closes: #313165)

Index: po4a
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RCS file: /cvsroot/po4a/po4a/po4a,v
retrieving revision 1.29
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -d -r1.29 -r1.30
--- po4a	30 May 2005 07:13:38 -0000	1.29
+++ po4a	29 Jun 2005 17:14:48 -0000	1.30
@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@
 example with makefiles), but it is rather difficult to do, and exhausting to 
 redo the same complicated makefiles for each project using po4a.
 
+The dataflow can be summarized as follow. Any changes to the master document
+will be reflected in the po files, and all changes to the po files (either
+manual or caused by previous step) will be reflected in translation
+documents.
+
+ master document --> po files --> translations
+
+The dataflow cannot be inversed in this tool, and changes in translations
+are overwritten by the content of the po files. As a matter of fact, this
+tool cannot be used to convert existing translations to the po4a system. For
+that task, please refer to L<po4a-gettextize(1)>.
+ 
 =head1 CONFIGURATION FILE SYNTAX
 
 The (mandatory) argument is the path to the configuration file to use.