4586N/A2000-04-01 ast message catalog plan

4586N/A

4586N/A(1) error_info.dictionary should be error_info.catalog

4586N/A to match xopen and the internal naming in our implementation

4586N/A and also to more closely match the webster definition

4586N/A (catalog == enumerated list)

DONE

(2) nmake by default will

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

ERROR_CATALOG == "$(CATALOG)"

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

commands in src/lib/libcmd will use the "libcmd" catalog

nmake will add "[--catalog?$(CATALOG)]" to USAGE_LICENSE

optget() will set error_info.catalog if not defined on the first call

commands that don't emit messages before optget() need not change

otherwise the command should

error_info.id = "foo";

error_info.catalog = ERROR_CATALOG;

undefined references to { USAGE_LICENSE ERROR_CATALOG } are hard

compile time errors

DONE

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

DONE

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

each Makefile will generate one catalog $(CATALOG).msg where

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

architecture specific tree, even though they will be eventually used

as architecture independent source

$(CATALOG).msg will be the "C" locale

debug will be a debugging locale that will translate each message to

(CATALOG-NAME:MESSAGE-INDEX)\n

this will make it easy to locate text that escaped translation (in what

should be translated output); it will also be a way for us to do

regression tests in the face of typo fixes -- presumably typos can be

fixed without changing the message index

see msgadmin(1)

DONE

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

DONE

(6) the makerules "all" action will

catgen $(CATALOG).cat

catgen $(CATALOG)-*.cat

and the makerules "install" action will copy the catgen output to

$(LOCALEDIR)/$(LOCALE)/LC_MESSAGES/$(CATALOG)*

where

LOCALEDIR = $(INSTALLROOT)/lib/locale

NOTE: still under consideration