Re: Release of version 4.9 of sharutils

[Bruce Korb]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Santiago Vila <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Erwin Poeze wrote:
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>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> > Translation information:
>> >
>> > sharutils.pot has changed with this release.
>> > Even with regard to the pre-release with restricted distribution.
>> > The change is primarily to remove the necessity for translators to have
>> > to worry over shell quoting for messages that get inserted into the
>> > generated shar archive.  The POT file now contains the text to be
>> > displayed by that manufactured shell script.  The necessary quoting
>> > will be added after translation (gettext lookup).
>
> Please note that modifying the .pot file in the last minute before
> making a release (i.e. without sending the .pot file again to the
> translation project) is likely to make translators to be upset,

I surely didn't mean to do that.   If it helps any, the translations
for the messages from the various sharutils  programs themselves
did not change.  What changed is the very-likely-little-used feature
of translating the messages inserted into the shar script itself.
It turns out that the earlier versions were very likely buggy.
They were buggy because there were multiple layers of quoting
going on and even I did not fully grasp what was going on until
you suggested there was a bug in one of the strings.  Anyway,
sorry.  I'll bump out a 4.10 after you-all have some time to get new
translations in.

>> I tried to added version 4.9 to the TP, but there is such a version
>> already. Can you please advice?
>> Should this one be considered a pre-release to the next version?

The "first" 4.9 was intended to be just for translators, not for
general consumption.

> I can't speak for him, but I think it's reasonable to say that the
> current .pot file is in either case closer to the .pot file for the
> next release, whenever such thing will happen.

Real soon now.  Sorry.

Regards, Bruce