Use xgettext-go instead of xgotext #1

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decentral1se · 2025-08-23T14:36:06Z

decentral1se commented

2025-08-23 14:36:06 +00:00

@3wordchant from the WIP rabbit hole of toolshed/abra#608...

I'll spare you the gory details (unless you care) but I am now running:

xgettext-go \
  -o pkg/i18n/locales/abra.pot \
  --keyword=i18n.G \
  --sort-output \
  $(find . -name "*.go" -not -path "*vendor*")

Which finishes in 1/3 of a second vs. the 10+ minutes or so it takes xgotext. You can grab it with: go install -v -x github.com/snapcore/snapd/i18n/xgettext-go@2.57.1 Coming from 8a2598a524/Makefile (L270-L291). I'm pretty convinced this tool is reliable since incus is a huge project which has existed for years...

It probably makes sense to wait till the dust settles in toolshed/abra#608 before making the switch here...

@3wordchant from the WIP rabbit hole of https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/abra/pulls/608... I'll spare you the gory details (unless you care) but I am now running: ```bash xgettext-go \ -o pkg/i18n/locales/abra.pot \ --keyword=i18n.G \ --sort-output \ $(find . -name "*.go" -not -path "*vendor*") ``` Which finishes in 1/3 of a second vs. the 10+ minutes or so it takes `xgotext`. You can grab it with: `go install -v -x github.com/snapcore/snapd/i18n/xgettext-go@2.57.1` Coming from https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/8a2598a524bbe5581e0ce62d2ae99262199a4717/Makefile#L270-L291. I'm pretty convinced this tool is reliable since `incus` is a huge project which has existed for years... It probably makes sense to wait till the dust settles in https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/abra/pulls/608 before making the switch here...

decentral1se commented

2025-08-23 15:58:46 +00:00

make i18n is pretty damn fast now 👇

		Makefile
		Lines 67 to 94 in 4e205cf13e
	
				.PHONY: i18n

				i18n: update-pot update-pot-po-metadata update-po build-mo

				.PHONY: update-po

				update-po:

					@set -eu; \

					for lang in $(LINGUAS); do \

						msgmerge --backup=none -U $$lang.po pkg/i18n/locales/$(DOMAIN).pot; \

					done

				.PHONY: update-pot

				update-pot:

					@xgettext-go \

						-o pkg/i18n/locales/$(DOMAIN).pot \

						--keyword=i18n.G \

						--sort-output \

						$$(find . -name "*.go" -not -path "*vendor*")

				.PHONY: update-pot-po-metadata

				update-pot-po-metadata:

					@sed -i "s/charset=CHARSET/charset=UTF-8/g" pkg/i18n/locales/*.po*

				.PHONY: build-mo

				build-mo:

					@set -eu; \

					for lang in $(POFILES); do \

						msgfmt $$lang -o $$(echo $$lang | sed 's/.po/.mo/g') --statistics; \

					done