On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 09:42:37PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > I have not seen any program (again, yet, maybe Grub will be the first > one) to split the messages in this way.
man-db does this, and it's fantastic. It vastly reduces the number of translation changes I have to deal with. It wasn't practical until I switched to the argp option parsing library which deals with a lot of the presentation issues, so that may be why a lot of programs that just use simple help output functions don't do it, but certainly as a maintainer it's vastly easier once it's done, and I haven't heard any complaints from translators. > b) Makes the alignment more difficult argp deals with this, and it's in Gnulib. We could import it without too much difficulty. > c) Makes the code a bit less clear IME the code is actually rather clearer with argp. You can look at man-db if you'd like to compare. In fact, I'd encourage that - it would give us a common basis for discussion. > Comment: sadly our grub.po already has someo of these long messages. > Would you change it and "force" the translators to change? Well, such a change would be one-time and would be not much more painful than any addition of an option under the long-message system. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
