On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:02:35 +1000, Lex wrote:
I'm still not too happy about this as it adds some overhead for a rather small effort.
I think Nick suggested this earlier:
why don't we simply put the defaul labels somewhere into src/build.c so that intltool grabs them as usual. And then when reading the labels from the config file, we simply pass them through gettext() to get them translated automatically. If I don't miss anything obvious, this should have the same result but without the need for an external script. The only drawback with this effort is that we have the English labels itself twice (one in src/build.c, one in the config file) but since they probably won't change much at all it might be not such a big issue.
That looks kinda like a maintenance nightmare keeping the strings in the code in line with the labels in config files, please don't go there for your own sakes ;-)
It depends how often the labels are added/removed/changed. Will it that often?
Regards, Enrico