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. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/CTMLCN8V17R4 "Cómo ponemos nuestros dedos en la arcilla del otro. Eso es la amistad; jugar al alfarero y ver qué formas se pueden sacar del otro" (C. Halloway en La Feria de las Tinieblas, R. Bradbury) _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel