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.