Re: Adding init-po and update-po targets to the meson build system

On 2026-Oct-07, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:

> So, my solution is switching to using nls.json files instead
> of nls.mk files and having a Perl script so that the autoconf system
> can parse these nls.json files and read them as nls.mk files as
> before. So the big picture is:
>
> - We will switch nls.mk files with nls.json files.
> - autoconf will read these nls.json files with the help of perl script.
> - meson will read nls.json files and will use a helper Python script
> to generate *.pot files.
> - meson will have init-po and update-po targets and also singular
> targes like psql-init-po.

Hmm, so the source files would be .json and we generate .mk files as
derivative artifacts? I don't know, that sounds potentially
nightmarish. Isn't it more convenient to generate a JSON file from the
nls.mk list instead?

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