Documentation proposal

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Mon May 4 10:49:07 CEST 2009


2009/5/4 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
> I'm against too complex hooks. I also have the feeling that the good
> old gettext translation method is not really suited for continuous
> text. IMHO the little syntax overhead you have with reST makes .po
> files almost pointless.

The point is tracking changes. The advantage of po files it will
result in fuzzy or untranslated strings, for separate files you have
to compare it with the original version. The syntax overhead is not
the point, keeping in sync is.

Nick



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