When running stats.pl, just update the po files in place rather than creating a temporary file which is later deleted. This changes causes the po files to show up as modified in your workspace, but I don't think many people care. There are two benefits to this: 1. When this script is run on pidgin.im it will always only have to account for strings that have changed in the last day, which means it'll run a lot faster 2. The msgmerge'd po files will be put online at http://developer.pidgin.im/l10n/ for the convenience of the translators