From: Lars Schneider Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:45:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui (MinGW): make use of MSys2's msgfmt Message-ID: <276F8090-61B8-4BF2-8D5D-7A6306880701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8a13544743fd5e6a3b3b5fdb35e02c9c34695e25.1500971399.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> > On 25 Jul 2017, at 10:35, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > When Git for Windows was still based on MSys1, we had no gettext, ergo > no msgfmt, either. Therefore, we introduced a small and simple Tcl > script to perform the same task. > > However, with MSys2, we no longer need that because we have a proper > msgfmt executable. Plus, the po2msg.sh script somehow manages to hang > when run in parallel in Git for Windows' SDK (symptom: the Continuous > Testing tasks timing out). > > Two reasons to use real msgfmt.exe instead. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > --- > > This hopefully fixes the hangs with the Windows builds triggered > by Travis. It was a tough one to figure out originally, and it is Awesome :-) Thanks for digging into this problem! - Lars