On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:55:14PM +0200, Hojtsy Gábor wrote:
> >> So we have a $Revision tag in the english file, showing the actual
> >> english version number. We can have a comment in the translated
> >> version, about what english version number it corresponds to. This
> >> way you can do a diff with these two versions, and see what needs
> >> to be modified/added in the translated file. I think it just
> >helps much.
> >> I can't understand what is your problem with this?
> >
> >I can´t see your point. The information what have been
> >modified/added is
> >in cvs.php.net. A revision tag is IMHO useless.
>
> Let's imagine, you start translating mysql.xml. This is not
> a small file, so you can't complete it in a day. You copy
> the mysql.xml file yourself to a separate directory, as
> you probably won't follow the modifications in the mysql.xml
> file as you translate, because the translation takes weeks.
> One week later, when you again have time to translate, you can
> see the $Revision tag in the copied english file, while the
> one in CVS is newer, so your point of what you are translating
> would be lost.
We have some translations from May 2000. The only possibility to get this
translation into sync with the English version is, compare the file
modification time with the revisions in cvs.php.net till that time and
make all modifications since that time. One revision tag is IMHO still
useless.
-Egon
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