[..snip..] > 1) What if the same warning or error message comes from two places? > Your numbering system would make this hard to identify. I would > suggest gathering up all the errors and warnings from all the files, > remove duplicates, then proceed with the numbering.
That is the plan, only there is allot of work.. i should come up with something to automate it. > 2) AIX (yea, I know thats a ick term) attempts to have a consistent > numbering system across the whole platform. This is done by > splitting the number into two pieces: aaaa-bbbbbb: where aaaa is > assigned to a particular program and bbbbbbb is the unique number > within the program (as you described). Perhaps the aaaa part is what > you intended for the 'c' in your example below. I would make it more > explicit. e.g. gcc1001 at least. The `c' was a example for the C programming language, so the error/warning message gets into a category rather indicating the program and do you have any idea how they do it in AIX? > I don't know how GNU does internationalization. But in AIX-land, > this is the first step. The messages are in the code and also in a > message file. If no language is specified in the user's environment, > the message in the code is used. If a language is specified (I'm > talking about the user's spoken language), then the message is looked > up in a file based upon the LANG and NLS environment variables. > > My warning is that this triggers a somewhat substantial support > effort. As new messages are added, their translations should be > created and added to each language file. Sorry i don't see how language support has to do anything with this. Could you explain? > With all that aside, as a user of gcc, I think it is a great idea -- > especially if it crept over into all of GNU's products. Great to hear that! I'm planning to set up a website(wiki?) so more people can actually work on it. Making patches (or a auto-patching script) is the plan so you can get the gcc-core and run the tool on it. Other programming languages can follow up if this works out and if there is actually interest for it.
