Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] git-sh-setup: don't mark trees not used in-tree for i18n

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Mar 31, 2022, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <12c7c651-49d2-d38b-122a-3fb5c29e94df@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <220331.86a6d6qqfe.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Am 31.03.22 um 13:15 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:

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> I do have some WIP changes to tear down most of the *.sh and *.perl i18n
> infrastructure (the parts still in use would still have translations),
> and IIRC it's at least a 2k line negative diffstat, and enables us to do
> more interesting things in i18n (e.g. getting rid of the libintl
> dependency).

Why? Why? Why? Does the status quo have a problem somewhere? All this sounds like a change for the sake of change.

> But I also don't think that such a series is probably not possible in
> the near term if we're going to insist that all shellscript output must
> byte-for-byte be the same (for boring reasons I won't go into, but it's
> mainly to do with sh-i18n--envsubst.c).

Such an insistence can easily be lifted if the change is justified sufficiently. I haven't seen such a justification, yet.

-- Hannes