On Fri, 31 Mar 100, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > I think part of those sentence-fragment entries are jsut remnants from
> > the past, when most text strings where surrounded with gettext(...) in bulk
>
> not exactly - a large fraction of those were from converting inline
> text fragments to gettext - but they were fragments in the code as written.
> I added similar definitions to LYMessages_en.h (without changing the
> design otherwise) to bring the total number of files referencing gettext
> down enough that it can be built with Solaris' gettext (which has an
> upper limit on the length of the file-list). So all of those fragments
> were in the code before we started converting to gettext.
That's what I meant (although I didn't consider the difference between
having the gettext("...") in LYMessages_en.h or in {LY,HT}*.c - that
didn't seem relevant). Those fragments are remnants from a past before
message internationalisation with gettext was considered.
Whether someone goes through all that and improves it or not - at least,
new code should not be added using that style. (Henry should keep his
watchful eyes on incoming patches, to make sure it doesn't slip in. :) )
Klaus
