Reduce dependencies: explore node gettext alternatives

[cedaro]

Reduce dependencies: explore node gettext alternatives

[bradyvercher]

This should be taken care of in 1fe234a. Basic testing showed duplicates were removed by simply parsing the POT file with a node gettext parser, then recompiling and saving the file.

I'll go ahead and close this out and push an update.

Thanks for the feedback @tollmanz. I hadn't considered the possibility of removing these dependencies beforehand, but like you said, it should exponentially improve the usability.

[bradyvercher]

For the sake of plugins and themes, it appears that the msguniq utility is the only dependency. It removes duplicate messages from POT files, which are invalid input for some other utilities. This looks like it typically only happens for some of the headers that WordPress appends after extracting gettexted strings.

The POT file will still be generated if msguniq isn't available, but a notice will be displayed and any duplicate strings will still exist.

I've searched for a node-based implementation of msguniq, but didn't have much luck. It might be as simple using a node parser to load the pot file, weed out the duplicates and re-save the file.

The other option is to bundle the msguniq binary with this package, but I'm not sure what the ramifications of that would be at the moment.

[tollmanz]

Dude...dude! This is amazing! I really thought that this was a stretch goal and you pull it off in less than 24 hours. Amazing!

I'm going to put this task through the paces later this week. Thanks for the great work.