Re: [PATCH] Poison gettext with the Ook language

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 22, 2018, 23:04 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqsh0xtwgb.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <878t2pd6yu.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> So I think the only reason to keep it compile-time is performance, but I
> don't think that matters. It's not like we're printing gigabytes of _()
> formatted output. Everything where formatting matters is plumbing which
> doesn't use this API. These messages are always for human consumption.
>
> So shouldn't we just drop this notion of GETTEXT_POISON at compile-time
> entirely, and make GIT_GETTEXT_POISON=<boolean> a test flag that all
> builds of git are aware of? I think so.

Haven't thought things through, but that sounds like a good thing to aim for. Keep the ideas coming...

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