[Po4a-devel]'msgid skipped' warnings

[Martin Quinson]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:47:39AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> 
> I'm a annoyed by the 'msgid skipped' warnings for two reasons:
> 
>  1) they don't give me any line information so I have no way of 
> checking the source Sgml file to verify whether po4a did the right thing 
> or not. This makes them completely useless.
> 
>  2) I can understand po4a-updatepo issuing this warning but should 
> po4a-translate really issue this warning too?
> 
> 
> I have fixed issue 1 by including the reference in the warning. 

It looks like you forgot to attach the patch, didn't you?

> An alternative would be to issue this warning only once and to tell the 
> user to set the 'include-all' option if he wants to get all the msgids.
> 
> 
> I'm dithering on issue 2. Initially I thought po4a-translate had no 
> reason to issue this warning since it's not generating a po file. But 
> then if the po file contains 'translations' for these msgids but 
> po4a-translate skips them anyway you'd probably want to know.
> 
> Maybe the solution to issue 2 is to be able to set 'include-all=no' to 
> indicate that you know some msgids are being skipped and you don't want 
> to see the warning.
> 
> Then maybe this means the right solution to issue 1 is really to only 
> issue the warning once and point the user to the 'include-all' option.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

Well, I completely agree on 1), but I'm really unsure about 2). Why should
warnings be a bad thing? 

If you insist, we can show the first one in any case and the further ones
only when the verbosity is high enough. That to say that I agree, these
warnings may be verbose. But verbosity is good sometimes...

Bye, Mt.
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