[Geany-devel] intltool usage question

[Enrico Tröger]

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

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