Re: [wdiff-bugs] obsolete or unused strings in POT file

[Denver Gingerich]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Benno Schulenberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Around line 4000 in mdiff.c a whole series of lines are disabled
> with "#if 0" and "#endif" directives.  But xgettext does not
> recognize these directives and puts the gettextized strings from
> those blocks into the POT file anyway.
>
> Are those strings obsolete strings, or future strings?

They appear to be future strings.  Most of them refer to unimplemented
features (when the options are used, they currently call the
UNIMPLEMENTED macro).  I believe that the previous maintainer created
these to guide his implementation of mdiff.  Eventually I will go
through the options and see what I find to be useful to implement,
re-adding the help strings as I go.

> Whatever they are, it would be nice not to have them in the POT
> file, as translators are now doing a lot of work for strings that
> are never (yet) used.  To achieve this, please wrap lines 3848 to
> 4054 in /*** and ***/.  When done, please do a 5.94 prerelease.

Thanks for letting me know about this.  I will make sure that this is
in the 0.5.94 release.  Note that, due to a plethora of good fixes
suggested by Bruno, 0.5.94 may take a week or two to release.

Denver