Re: [GIT PULL/RESEND] kernel message catalog patches

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Oct 27 2008 - 12:36:08 EST


> Which is why I think for something like this, it really needs to be
> entirely outside. Because putting it inside the kernel simply isn't going
> to result in anything really useful. Either it can be close to the message
> and be updated reasonably (never mind that if we really do support
> multiple languages, that's not going to happen anyway, even if it's
> close), or it's going to be somewhere else and not be updated when changes
> happen - and then it migth as well be a separate project.

Small bits of it have to be inside the kernel
- Markup (_("Hello") To extract the strings)
- To format the data in a way that can be recovered by ksyslogd and
translated.

Alan
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