[translations] Translation templates for modules with sub-modules

[Gábor Hojtsy]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Vasileios Lourdas <drupal at lourdas.name> wrote:
>  I've contributed the Greek translation for a few third party modules. Here's a
>  question that arises some times.
>
>  A few modules  (eg. module foo), have also sub-modules (eg. subfoo1, subfoo2,
>  etc.) that provide additional functionality to foo. When I run the command
>  line version of potx inside the module foo directory to extract the .pot
>  file, the default behaviour of potx is to parse all files, so it generates a
>  template for all existing modules in that directory (foo, subfoo1, subfoo2,
>  etc.). However, I am not really sure this is a correct procedure, because of
>  the fact that the user is able to enable only foo and not any of its
>  submodules. So, what's the correct procedure to handle all sub-modules?
>  Should there be an individual .pot file for each sub-module or one big .pot
>  for all?

There are other modes of potx-cli.php to run, try running it with
--help and choose.

Gabor