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Re: [Monotone-devel] Ready to release next week
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Alvaro Herrera |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Ready to release next week |
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Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:35:02 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
Jack Lloyd wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:47:57AM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote:
>
> > Then we should - at least - do not throw them at the user in detail at
> > all, but do something like F("format error in .mtn-ignore"). The pcre
> > messages could then still be logged or outputted when running with
> > --debug. For me this sounds better than having a half-translated
> > application...
>
> Or print the PCRE errors iff LANG=en? Which does make everything else
> a second-class language, but it seems somewhat bizarre to me to
> intentionally throw away potentially valuable diagnostic information.
IMHO the only reasonable solution is to print everything. If a
diagnostic message is not translated, though luck (i.e. print them in
english) -- it is really annoying if the messages are just silently
skipped.
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