While programming the l10n translation, I have stumbled across something which I do not know is a real or theoretical problem. I need an opinion from people with more experience.
Description of the current situation: When you run configure with e.g. "--with-lang=da", all languages Are inserted in the source files alongside with the original en-US text. This works without problems BUT, if the developer forget to do a checkout (thereby removing the extra languages) but does a commit, then SVN will have all languages in the file. After the commit a snapshot (or development) build will contain all languauges for that file. Note: If a translation changes, it will be replaced in the file with the next build, so it will work. However: - developer/snapshot contains an "unwanted" language part - it is not clean that all language are in this file, as well as in the sdf file (original), and can lead to confusion, where what is maintained. What I easily could do, was NOT to overwrite the file, but place a new file (same content but with all languages added) in the <platform>/misc directory, therefore the original would be left untouched. This requires of course some makefile changes (the new l10n process requires anyhow changes), which I will do (in a sub-branch) when the system is ready. Question: Is it a problem that the original is overwritten, and it would be better to write a new file (in misc) ? or Am I thinking about a theoretical problem, that is no real world problem ? Just to be sure, the effort of doing one or the other are the same, so that is not an argument (at least for me), we should do what is correct. Jan I.
