[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #45287: Deprecate and remove i18n tools

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#45287: Deprecate and remove i18n tools
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 Reporter:  ocean90         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  WordPress.org
Component:  I18N            |    Version:
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
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 The internationalization tools (also known as `makepot.php`) were added in
 [25003].
 `makepot.php` was primarily used for generating POT files on WordPress.org
 servers for core. Later also for bbPress/BuddyPress and WordPress.org
 projects like Rosetta or the support forums until it was opened for
 plugins and themes. The canonical source of the tools is still
 https://i18n.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tools/trunk which was causing for
 files not being in sync in the past.

 It has been a great pleasure to work with `makepot.php` over the past
 [https://i18n.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4169/ 11 years] but now it's
 time to say goodbye as there's now a proper replacement for it:
 [https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/i18n/ wp i18n make-pot]. 🎉

 The new CLI command was [https://make.wordpress.org/cli/2018/08/08/wp-
 cli-v2-0-0-release-notes/ introduced in WP-CLI 2.0] and provides full
 parity with `makepot.php`. Actually even more like auditing strings,
 parsing strings only of a specific text domain, extracting JavaScript
 strings and extracting [https://github.com/wp-cli/i18n-
 command/pull/69#issuecomment-410712986 PHP strings which weren't caught]
 by `makepot.php`. Since last week, the build tools on WordPress.org are
 using the command for string extraction, see #meta3748.

 Therefore I'm proposing to remove the tools from core.svn and promote the
 use of `wp i18n make-pot` and [https://github.com/wp-cli/i18n-
 command/issues concentrate our efforts on the new command].

 Tickets which can be closed:
 * #37605
 * #42747
 * #42818
 * #43864

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