Hi, On Mar/27/2010, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 09:42:37PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > I have not seen any program (again, yet, maybe Grub will be the first > > one) to split the messages in this way. > > man-db does this, and it's fantastic. It vastly reduces the number of > translation changes I have to deal with. It wasn't practical until I > switched to the argp option parsing library which deals with a lot of > the presentation issues, so that may be why a lot of programs that just > use simple help output functions don't do it, but certainly as a > maintainer it's vastly easier once it's done, and I haven't heard any > complaints from translators.
I understand that you mean to use something like: http://www.faqs.org/docs/learnc/x948.html > > b) Makes the alignment more difficult > > argp deals with this, and it's in Gnulib. We could import it without > too much difficulty. I like this idea > > c) Makes the code a bit less clear > > IME the code is actually rather clearer with argp. You can look at > man-db if you'd like to compare. In fact, I'd encourage that - it > would give us a common basis for discussion. I will look into that > > Comment: sadly our grub.po already has someo of these long messages. > > Would you change it and "force" the translators to change? > > Well, such a change would be one-time and would be not much more > painful than any addition of an option under the long-message system. So, how it looks if I try to migrate to argp for the utils/* programs? Probably I will not have lot of time on next days/weeks, but I will try to migrate one of the utils/ program to discuss on it and then do the same with the other ones. Unless someone complains (please, do soon rather than later :-) ) that argp would introduce some problems. I'm thinking with portability problems or something like this. Cheers, -- Carles Pina i Estany http://pinux.info _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
