In the old days ... (was:Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio)

2007-07-18 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:00:52AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: The problem with gettext, IMHO and in my experience, is that your are never really sure it will work, i.e. actually output translated strings... e.g. test builds in a directory certainly can't find the necessary files, or at most

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio

2007-07-17 Thread Derek Scherger
Lapo Luchini wrote: And using gettext for strings that must be both easily parsable and consistent over time, mhh just feels wrong. gettext is a wonderful library for translation of human-oriented strings, but I wouldn't use it for computer-oriented strings. So is C a human language or a

[Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio

2007-07-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: It may (?) be a faster intermediate solution, but seems a little too brittle to be the real solution, to me. What would be a non-intermediate solution for you? It is probably a personal little idiosyncrasy but I consider brittle kinda everything that involves parsing

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Keller
Lapo Luchini schrieb: Thomas Keller wrote: It may (?) be a faster intermediate solution, but seems a little too brittle to be the real solution, to me. What would be a non-intermediate solution for you? ... At the moment, I know pretty much *nothing* about basic_io, so I'm not in the

[Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio

2007-07-15 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Keller wrote: Opinions anyone? It may (?) be a faster intermediate solution, but seems a little too brittle to be the real solution, to me. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio

2007-07-15 Thread Thomas Keller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lapo Luchini schrieb: Thomas Keller wrote: Opinions anyone? It may (?) be a faster intermediate solution, but seems a little too brittle to be the real solution, to me. What would be a non-intermediate solution for you? - -- only dead fish

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio

2007-07-14 Thread Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller schrieb: Monotone uses a couple of global macros which error out well-defined if something went wrong and this even works for the stdio ostream. However, what you get as error message is still the same one a normal user would get. You could start stdio or any other mtn subprocess

[Monotone-devel] Re: Workspace commands and automate/stdio

2007-07-09 Thread William Uther
Thomas Keller wrote: Is there any schedule for adding the workspace commands to automate/stdio? Having at least the basic commands (add / rename / drop) available would be really great. Well, adding those commands to automate is fairly trivial, there are mostly two problems with it: a)