On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:17 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frédéric, > > Thanks for taking a first look at this. As a quick note, we'd like to > keep all development email on chromium-dev. We think of ourselves as one > team working on a single cross platform product. > > As for your idea, I think it's the right approach for getting something > up and running quickly. It's a bit more complicated in that there are > actually multiple .grd files (3 right now) that generate 3 .h files and 3 > .rc files on windows. The resource compiler in Visual Studio takes all > three .rc files to generate one data library. So there may need to be a > second pass that merges the output of GRIT into a single file. This > would probably happen in the SConscript file. > > Some other general questions: > > 1) Should we actually store the strings in a shared library or should it > just be a data file that we read/parse on startup? > > 2) Should we perhaps try to output .po and write a gettext wrapper for > loading strings (maybe we could use rc2po [1])? I haven't used gettext > before, but perhaps there are benefits of using an existing tool (e.g., > making it easy for people to contribute translations).
Why use rc files at all? That's windows-specific, gettext works on all platforms, including Windows. -- Felipe Contreras --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
