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On May 3, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Barry Warsaw writes:
>
>> IMO, this is a problem. We can make the Python extraction tool work,
>> but we should still be very careful about breaking 3rd party tools
>> like xgettext, since other projects may be using such tools.
>
> But
>
> _("some string" +
> " and more of it")
>
> is already legal Python, and xgettext is already broken for it.
Yep, but the idiom that *gettext accepts is used far more often. If
that's outlawed then the tools /have/ to be taught the alternative.
> Arguably, xgettext's implementation of -L Python should be
>
> execve ("pygettext", argv, environ);
>
> <wink>
Ouch. :)
- -Barry
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