rxgettext: please implement a command-line option to set the copyright YEAR

[375gnu]

This issue is originally reported as Debain bug 726941.

it would be great if rxgettext had a command-line option to specify what should be put in the output .pot file in stead of the "YEAR" in the copyright notice.

In other words, let's consider (again) the test case described in bug #684182.

If I create the .pot with rxgettext:

  $ rxgettext --add-comments=TRANSLATORS --no-wrap \
              --copyright-holder="Francesco Poli" \
              --package-name=myapplication --package-version=0.1 \
              --msgid-bugs-address="address@example.com" \
              myapplication.rb -o myapplication_RXGETTEXT.pot

the copyright notice in the output .pot is:

  $ grep Copyright myapplication_RXGETTEXT.pot 
  # Copyright (C) YEAR Francesco Poli

As far as I know, there's no way to tell rxgettext to replace that "YEAR" with, say, "2012", "1999-2013", or "1998, 2005-2007, 2012".

I think it would be useful to have some command-line option to do that. Something like

  $ rxgettext ... --copyright-year="1999-2013" ...

Please implement this additional feature and/or forward this bug report upstream.
Thanks for your time!

[kou]

Thanks for your suggestion!
I've added it.