Hallo Herr Ralf Quint, am Montag, 13. April 2020 um 21:22 schrieben Sie:
> On 4/13/2020 10:28 AM, tom ehlert wrote: >> >>>> So the task would be to translate 5000 snippets of >>>> French, are there any GrafX2 fans who feel in the >>>> mood to help FreeDOS as source "interpreters"? :-) >> a) this sounds like a job for something like >> >> grep ... | sed ... | awk ...| translate.google.com | sed ... >> >> unfortunately I forgot the missing options ;) >> >> >> b) there are many programs with english comments in the wild without >> any active developer. why do you think having english comments for some >> obscure GrafX2 would change this? does it even need development, or >> isn't it already great (or at least good enough)? >> > Just downloaded the sources and checked them, just out of curiosity. > The "problem" is not that much the comments, but that the C sources, at > least the large files that I checked (didn't look at any of the .h > files) have pretty much all functions and variables in French. And that > is not something you can easily "fix" with an automated process. > The sources are 21/22 years old, but for a real DOS program, this is > kind of to be expected. And not necessarily a bad thing. > I am not much into graphics work, and certainly not on DOS these days, > so what would be the problem with GrafX2? If it works and you can > recompile it, it shouldn't matter much in what language it is written. > At least for me, with at least some knowledge in French, the source > seems to be pretty well written and commented, so if someone would need > to go bug hunting, this should still be feasible... at least for me, a working binary is just fine. after 21/22 years, all bugs should have appeared, should there be any. as a good example, consider FreeCOM. english sources. well known bugs since 2006. no one cared until Bart fixed the binary in 2019. now no one cares (as in testing an reporting) if the bugs have indeed been fixed. unless GrafX2 is some amazing program, porting comments and function names to english is probably waste of lifetime. YMMV. its your lifetime. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
