Re: Release of version 4.9 of sharutils

[Erwin Poeze]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 01:10:21PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Santiago Vila <address@hidden> wrote:
> > [ trimming address@hidden from CC ]
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Erwin Poeze wrote:
> >
> >> 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 do not like the idea of replacing the content of pot file without changing 
the version number. If an translator is working on the old version 4.9 and in 
the meantime to content is updated, it will make him/her wonder why not all 
strings are translated, even if this is the case in the local version.

It is beter to stick to the idea of prerelease numbering like 4.9-pre1, e 
4.9-pre2 etc. The only issue now is that there is an version 4.9 already which 
will be sorted in the list view such that is shows up at the bottom of the 
list. For the same reason as I mentioned above I do not want to change the 
current version 4.9 to 4.9-pre1. 

I would suggest to add the new 4.9 pot file as 4.10-pre1. Is that ok?

Cheers,
-- 
Erwin Poeze
<address@hidden>