Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
This brings up another (as yet unwritten) guideline:
Don't change translatable strings if you can avoid it.
If you must rearrange lines, extract and create new strings, rather than
extracting and moving into existing blocks.
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've pushed a version of the sort branch that contains the following
updates:
1. Try to minimize changes to translatable strings
2. Improve diagnostic messages for files0-from edge-cases
3. Use the new standardized files0-from test script format
4.
Jim Meyering wrote:
This brings up another (as yet unwritten) guideline:
Don't change translatable strings if you can avoid it.
If you must rearrange lines, extract and create new strings, rather than
extracting and moving into existing blocks. This avoids making unnecessary
work for
Jim Meyering wrote:
Also, I made some syntactic changes to fit with my policy
preferences (no operators, and adjusted const placement):
Thanks Jim.
BTW - Do you have these policy preferences collected somewhere? I don't
remember seeing some of them in the general GNU standards document. If
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Also, I made some syntactic changes to fit with my policy
preferences (no operators, and adjusted const placement):
Thanks Jim.
BTW - Do you have these policy preferences collected somewhere? I don't
remember seeing some of them
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are my outstanding patches. These are also available for fetch at:
git://repo.or.cz/coreutils/bo.git
They are in the following branches:
...
error-msgs (and syntax checks)
Thanks, Bo,
I've just pushed that one, slightly adjusted:
One of the new
