I demand that Udo Richter may or may not have written... [snip] > How does this translate into gettext? Does each plugin use its own > textdomain(), and if, how does the domain switching happen? It should; see dgettext(3). > Will plugins based on the old i18n.c concept continue to work, or do they > have to migrate to gettext? I'd give them some time (and output warnings). > Will a converted plugin work under a non-gettext VDR version too? I see no reason why it shouldn't. > For the existing plugins, we imho need a smooth upgrade path, preferably > some scripting-fu that turns i18n.c into .po files. [...] I don't think so. Translatable strings should be marked up for extraction in the standard way: let the existing gettext tools do the work. -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> If you're feeling good, don't worry; you'll get over it.
