[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/help help_mp-en.h,1.111,1.112

[Diego Biurrun]

Torinthiel writes:
 > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:24:53PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 > > Arpi writes:
 > >  > > I suppose IMHO we should make this into policy: If the message is
 > >  > > changed, it's name (#define'd) also _must_ be changed.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yes. Otherwise translators (help-diff.sh) won't find the change.
 > >  > And especially when it contains format string (%s etc) it's critical.
 > > 
 > > I agree we should have a policy about this, but alternatively we can
 > > just remove a message from all translations when it has changed.  It's
 > > not too difficult with sed.  The other alternative may be slightly
 > > less work but probably we'll start collecting cruft in the help files
 > > this way when the old messages never get removed.  So what's better?
 > 
 > I think removing. Or more exactly renaming is a bad idea IMHO. Because
 > names are (at least from what I've observed) chosen to be meaningful.
 > And there are only so many meaningful names, so if we change the names
 > we change them to something less meaningful.

I agree with you, so let's keep that rule: Changed messages should be
removed from all translations.  Here's how you can do it from the
help/ subdir without getting a Cola punishment:

for i in `ls help_mp-* | sed /help_mp-en.h/d`; do sed -e "/MSGTR_XXX/d" $i > tmp; mv tmp $i; done

Diego