[Po4a-devel]New release soon?

[Martin Quinson]

Of course, if you guys think it's not a good idea to release in the current
state, I'll revise my mind...

Mt.


On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:16:18PM -0700, Martin Quinson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is 5 bugs in the debian packages which are fixed in the CVS. At least
> I hope so. Pierre, can you confirm that those bugs are dead?
> 
> Debian should release someday in september (of this year). So, the
> distribution will become frozen soon, making it impossible to upload new
> versions. So, I'd like to get 0.17.2 out of the door before this happens.
> 
> I just fuzzied a whole bunch of strings, and I'm sorry about that. This
> habit of putting "po4a::module: " before the error messages is a good one,
> but this string is not translatable and should be removed from the gettext
> argument. 
> 
> What we really need is a function embeeding the call to warn and sprintf,
> and reputting the module in front of it and the "\n" afterward (but not the
> dgettext since it has to be there to be able to extract the strings). It
> would help making the code more readable. We could also implement a sort of
> wrapping function setting the module name in front of every line. There is a
> module for that in Perl.
> 
> Anyway. Please stop modifying strings now without good reason (I mainly
> speak to myself, according to recent history). Please do not add new feature
> to the stuff we want to release (everything beside msgselect and Xml.pm --
> same remark).
> 
> And it would be cool if you could update the translations, but the release
> will wait for you, take your time. I always feel bad to ask you to do
> something. Even more when most of the work is caused by my lastest weird idea.
> 
> Of course, if the bugs do not reveal to be fixed, the release is delayed.
> 
> Sorry about that, and thanks for your time, dudes.
> Mt.
> 
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