On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:50:55AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > > This idea will cirumvent most of the problems which gettext alone > > just can't deal with. It's little and as such not very likely to > > introduce many new bugs. > > With the usage of static array and buffer lengths you demonstrated in > your patch it will most likely introduce one or two new bugs, but that > could easily be hacked up a little cleaner > > I also don't like the format of the localerc you proposed since it doesn't > look like the other files in ~/.gimp-1.1. Why not use the scheme-like > syntax people are used to use and that the gimp can parse anyway? True, although we have a couple other inconsistencies already. The coding style needs to be the same as the rest of gimp though. > > It would allow us to ship GIMP 1.2 with the possibility to add plugins > > which will also benefit from localisation without any hassle. > > I'm not yet convinced that this goal is worth all the hassle. What do > other people on this list think about this? It's not that much code, and does fix a gaping hole in the i18n framework for plugins not distributed with gimp. Especially if we want 1.2 to last a while.. -Yosh
