Re: *Much* better error msgs

[James Sutherland]

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Marcus Meissner wrote:

> > Good idea. How about an abbreviated string, though? If we have a lookup
> > function wine_error_name(char*), we could use
> > FIXME(wine_error_name("RelocateFailed"),...).
> > 
> > Perhaps we could take a leaf out of Acorn's book here: for I18N purposes,
> > their RISC OS contained a module called MessageTrans, which looked up text
> > tokens in a text file. You would call a lookup function with an argument
> > like this:
> 
> Argh.
> 
> Why not just use the standard tool, GNU gettext?

If it's license compatible, and does the job, then yes. Is this the case,
though??


James.