Re: [Monotone-devel] Error handling via automate

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 12:34 +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> > Possibly the structure of SMTP/HTTP/FTP/... style response codes are a
> > useful precedent?  Or possibly there should be a small set of errors
> > defined on a per-command basis?
> 
> Would an 'automate' locale/translation, with machine-friendly messages
> like this, be unreasonable?

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.)

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

Tim
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