Re: [Monotone-devel] Error handling via automate

[Thomas Keller]

Timothy Brownawell schrieb:
> Probably, yes. I don't really think that's the kind of thing gettext is
> designed for. (Also, AIUI, using gettext would require that you actually
> *install* monotone, so the translation files get put in the right place.
> Probably not a nice thing to require for making automate work
> correctly.)

I was recently told that one could compile monotone in such a way that 
you point the `localedir` to something like `pwd`/po if you run make 
inside the checked out dir and this seems to work nicely.

> Better to just have our errors include an error code and not rely on
> translation machinery for that.

In the end I'm fine with either way. One has to ensure though that the 
placing of an error identifier *inside* a translation is never changed 
e.g. because of grammatical issues, so it should be predefined like

E123: <<locale error message here>>

Thomas.

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