0N/A2000-04-01 ast message catalog plan

2362N/A

0N/A(1) error_info.dictionary should be error_info.catalog

0N/A to match xopen and the internal naming in our implementation

0N/A and also to more closely match the webster definition

0N/A (catalog == enumerated list)

0N/A

0N/A DONE

0N/A

0N/A(2) nmake by default will

0N/A CATALOG = $(ID:N=+([A-Za-z0-9_]):?$(PWD:N=*/lib/*:Y,lib,,)$(ID)?$(PWD:B)?)

0N/A ERROR_CATALOG == "$(CATALOG)"

0N/A e.g., commands in src/cmd/std will use the "std" catalog; all of the

0N/A commands in src/lib/libcmd will use the "libcmd" catalog

0N/A

0N/A nmake will add "[--catalog?$(CATALOG)]" to USAGE_LICENSE

0N/A optget() will set error_info.catalog if not defined on the first call

0N/A commands that don't emit messages before optget() need not change

2362N/A otherwise the command should

2362N/A

2362N/A error_info.id = "foo";

0N/A error_info.catalog = ERROR_CATALOG;

0N/A

0N/A undefined references to { USAGE_LICENSE ERROR_CATALOG } are hard

0N/A compile time errors

0N/A

0N/A DONE

0N/A

0N/A(3) add catalog argument to libcmd <cmd.h> cmdinit(argv, context, catalog)

0N/A

0N/A DONE

0N/A

0N/A(4) msgcat global target build msgs/*.mso and $(CATALOG).msg

0N/A each Makefile will generate one catalog $(CATALOG).msg where

0N/A

0N/A the *.msg files are weird -- we need to build them viewed over an

0N/A architecture specific tree, even though they will be eventually used

0N/A as architecture independent source

0N/A

0N/A $(CATALOG).msg will be the "C" locale

0N/A

0N/A debug will be a debugging locale that will translate each message to

0N/A (CATALOG-NAME:MESSAGE-INDEX)\n

0N/A this will make it easy to locate text that escaped translation (in what

0N/A should be translated output); it will also be a way for us to do

0N/A regression tests in the face of typo fixes -- presumably typos can be

0N/A fixed without changing the message index

0N/A

0N/A see msgadmin(1)

0N/A

0N/A DONE

0N/A

0N/A(5) once all this is working I'll do catopen(3) and msggen(1)

0N/A

0N/A DONE

0N/A

0N/A(6) the makerules "all" action will

0N/A catgen $(CATALOG).cat

0N/A catgen $(CATALOG)-*.cat

0N/A and the makerules "install" action will copy the catgen output to

0N/A $(LOCALEDIR)/$(LOCALE)/LC_MESSAGES/$(CATALOG)*

0N/A where

0N/A LOCALEDIR = $(INSTALLROOT)/lib/locale

0N/A

0N/A NOTE: still under consideration

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