Re: Is it woth to have SVN_REVNUM_T_FMT?

Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:

>
>>> xgettext scans the source files wihout preprocessing them. And it makes
>>> sense because any change in the text would render the translations
>>> obsolete.

Except that doesn't make sense! The whole point of preprocessing macros is to
change elements of the source code based on compile-time choices. And that
includes string literals. If xgettext cannot handle that, it is a serious
limitation.

> It could be done, but IMO format strings should be *constant* when using
> gettext. So I see just two solutions, to use a function format_revision()
> or just to replace this macro with the proper "%ld" and move over =).

In this case, yes we should probably just hardcode %ld, but the use of macros to
provide crossplatform format strings is widespread (some might consider it
pervasive). A better way of scanning the source files (preferrably after
preprocessing) would be the preferred way to deal with this, rather than cripple
the code to fit xgettext's limitations.

John

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