[Interest] Per-language lupdate options not possible with qt_add_lupdate CMake helper?

[Elvis Stansvik]

Thanks Alexandru,

=> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115845

Den mån 7 aug. 2023 kl 09:42 skrev Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor at qt.io>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Unless i'm misreading the code, i don't think it's currently possible to pass per-file / per-lang
> separate options for a single target with qt_add_lupdate.
>
> You could try to work around it by having separate targets per language, but that's clearly sub-optimal.
>
> You should be fine with using qt_create_translation as long as it meets your needs, we likely won't remove
> any deprecated api until there is a good enough replacement.
>
> Having said that, I suggest you file a suggestion on the bug tracker, so we can keep track of the use case.
>
>
> > On 6. Aug 2023, at 15:21, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Porting our application to Qt 6 and I'm a little confused by the new
> > qt_add_lupdate CMake helper.
> >
> > When we run lupdate to generate/update our English translation .ts
> > files, since our source strings are in English, we want to pass
> > -pluralonly to lupdate, to only have plural forms for translators to
> > "translate". We don't want to do this for other languages.
> >
> > It seems this is not possible with qt_add_lupdate which takes a target
> > argument and adds a ${target}_lupdate target, since I assume that with
> > two successive calls to qt_add_lupdate for the same target (first with
> > our English .ts files and second with the others), the second call
> > would trample of what the first one did?
> >
> > How should this be done in Qt 6? Surely someone else must be in the same boat?
> >
> > I know that the non-target based qt_create_translation still exists,
> > but it's deprecated so not something we want to use.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Elvis
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