[MPlayer-dev-eng] MSGTRs for mencoder.c, vd.c, libass

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 02:57 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 03:45:35AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 02:32 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > This way, keeping mp_msg is ok, but MSGTRs will make my life much harder. I'd 
> > > > prefer to leave things as they are now.
> > > 
> > > Why?  You can simply add those messages to your patch, can't you?
> > 
> > The MPlayer translation system is not too good and I wouldn't recommend
> > using it in a separately used library.
> 
> That's not what I was saying.  If he uses mp_msg, he might as well
> extract a few messages from help_mp-en.h and put them in his local
> patch.

That is what I was referring to. Removing all the strings from the code
(there are more than a few) and replacing them with constants #defined
elsewhere would degrade the implementation quality as an independent
library.