[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] GTK2 support

[Torinthiel]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:36:09PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > 2. Automatic MSG_NUMBER generation
> 
> This is bad, since message numbers might change across MPlayer version
> and lead to printing nonsense (or even crashing) if the wrong message
> files are used. That's why I want them to be defined once and
> permanently in a help file.

Point taken. But who's gonna maintain them? And it still makes
help_mp-en.h look ugly. And this is the most probable file every
translator will look at, and TRY to guess translation format from it.
How about we leave help/* as-is, add another file (say
help/help_numbers) that keeps only the id's of messages (say # MSG* id)
and make help_mp.h from these? It still takes some effort to maintain,
but IMHO less, as text and id's can be maintained separately. Problem is
that anyone adding a message should add it to both files, but probably
compilation will enforce this. And it will be easier to choose if we
fall back to English or translated messages (this way
#define catgets(a,b,c,d) (d)
works as previous behaviour).


> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/gencat.html

And it even describes format for us ;)
Quick test shows that getcat issues a warning if it it finds duplicate
definitions, but no errors.
It should also be possible to convert pogen.c to generate message files.
I'll probably can get to it, but probably not before end of March.
Torinthiel

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