Attention translators: moving to Transifex

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I have created a separate project for calibre plugins translation.

Do you know if there is a way, as a plugin author, to download all non-empty translations for a given plugin (other than one by one from the resources->plugin name page)?

[kovidgoyal]

transifex has a command line client that might be able to do it. It will probably download all .po file and then you can use msgfmt --statistics to filter out those without translations.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

transifex has a command line client that might be able to do it. It will probably download all .po file and then you can use msgfmt --statistics to filter out those without translations.

I've been using their 'tx' command tool to semi-automatically pull translations for my plugins. First I setup a .tx/config file in the plugin source directory I run my script from:

[main]
host = https://www.transifex.com

[calibre-plugins.fanfictiondownloader]
file_filter = translations/<lang>.po
source_lang = en
type = PO

Then I have a dos/windows batch file I run:

set PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8
c:\Python27\tx.exe pull --minimum-perc=90 -f -a

cd translations
for %%f in (*.po) do (
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibre-debug.exe" -c "from calibre.translations.msgfmt import main; main()" %%~nf
)

cd ..

That specifies only languages that are 90% or more complete and uses calibre to convert them to .mo files. I have different config files and translation directories for each plugin.

Since I also setup Transifix to automatically update from the .pot files in my source repositories, that's all I need to do, aside from check for new translations periodically.