Re: obsolete entries in po files

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:39:48PM +0100, Fatih Demir wrote:

> Hm, can msgmerge recognize the new "old" strings and uncomment the obsolete
>  entries? Didn't try this yet though..

Yes! That is why keeping those lines is usefull.

> > Maybe a nice thing to have (but that would need to be done on gettext tools)
> > would be a tag to tell the date when a string got obsoleted; then tools
> > could have an option to delete those older than a given amount of time
> > (user specified); that would avoid losing translations just because someone
> > /* commented */ some lines temporarly to do some test then put them back,
> > but the translators removed the #~ old lines, and then go on holiday and
> > when they are back the new release hasn't some translations that the 
> > translator had done, then removed...
> > Yes, that kind of things happen, I already saw it several times.
> 
> Hm, is the addition of extra data to the message comments depraciated? I would
>  find it useful to add some fields to the messages if possible -- but only
>   if this would be clean and Ok.

mmh, using userland comments (those '# text' ones) should work, indeed,
as msgmerge seems to keep them on obsoleted lines.
But it would be nicer if it could be done by msgmerge itself (as it is it
that creates the obsoleted strings)

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