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

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