On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:50:55AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > This idea will cirumvent most of the problems which gettext alone
> > just can't deal with. It's little and as such not very likely to
> > introduce many new bugs.
>
> With the usage of static array and buffer lengths you demonstrated in
> your patch it will most likely introduce one or two new bugs, but that
> could easily be hacked up a little cleaner
>
> I also don't like the format of the localerc you proposed since it doesn't
> look like the other files in ~/.gimp-1.1. Why not use the scheme-like
> syntax people are used to use and that the gimp can parse anyway?
True, although we have a couple other inconsistencies already. The
coding style needs to be the same as the rest of gimp though.
> > It would allow us to ship GIMP 1.2 with the possibility to add plugins
> > which will also benefit from localisation without any hassle.
>
> I'm not yet convinced that this goal is worth all the hassle. What do
> other people on this list think about this?
It's not that much code, and does fix a gaping hole in the i18n
framework for plugins not distributed with gimp. Especially if we want
1.2 to last a while..
-Yosh
