Re: Cooking of the ab/i18n series
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 13:30, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> That is one good example. Perhaps we can get a list of messages that we
>> can place in Documentation/ area (e.g. "'Not up-to-date' - this message is
>> given when you have local changes in a file in the working tree; given by
>> command X, Y and Z") out of that effort for free? Perhaps such a list can
>> help us verify that i18n does not break plumbing output (because the list
>> does not contain plumbing messages)?
>
> We'd get this sort of list out of "TRANSLATORS:" comments for
> free. They're automatically extracted and presented to translators and
> others with the xgettext program.
>
> Maintaining a list of messages in Documentation/ somewhere that's
> bound to get out of date with the source code doesn't make sense given
> the TRANSLATORS support.
Read it again---I didn't say "maintaining" a list at all; we are saying
the same thing more or less ;-) You might need to massage the output from
TRANSLATORS: comment to a more readable form suitable for inclusion in the
documentation (depending on how that thing looks like), though.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>