Using locations set to false does not remove output location paths in the .pot file (v4.0.0-beta.1)

[Panchi99]

After upgrade of vue3-gettext library from 3.0.0-beta.1 to 4.0.0-beta.1 I have noticed that the new locations: false flag does remove the output location paths for .po files, as designed. However, it does not remove it for the messages.pot file.

I would have expected that it does remove it for both kind of files. This is quite important for our use case, as our developers are spared of multiple unnecessary location paths merge conflicts on the .po/.pot files.

Can we make the locations flag applicable for .pot files as well?

Thank you in advance. 😄

[lzurbriggen]

@Panchi99 I did some testing, this is a bit of a weird behavior of msgmerge. Simply running msgmerge --lang=en_US --update en_US.po messages.pot --no-location --backup=off when the PO file already has location comments will do nothing. However, if I remove a single location-comment, it will remove all of the others as well, so manually removing a location-comment from the PO files should be a one-off fix (or using msgcat --no-location to clean up the files).

I will consider a separate flag to remove references from .pot files.