Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitk: Import msgcat for translation support

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Jul 27, 2007, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <18090.34168.705811.872887@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070727165318.e96b1yxxwsooo884@webmail.tu-harburg.de>

Christian Stimming writes:

> Import tcl's msgcat package to have the [mc...] procedure for  
> translation available.

I would prefer

if {[catch {
    package require msgcat
    # rest of your new stuff
}]} {
    proc mc {str} {
	return $str
    }
}

so that everything still works if msgcat isn't available. In other words I don't want to introduce a possible regression by increasing gitk's requirements.

Paul.