Re: String changes in Evolution

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 03:11 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> Hmm. Matthew, please take into consideration that
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/MsgctxtMigration is only a suggestion
> right now. I know I suggested it in
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249844, but using msgctxt in
> Evolution right now may alter Evolutions dependencies on glib, gettext
> and intltool, and you should probably be clear that with Evolution
> maintainers first. If you want to play it safe in this regard, Q_ is
> still the safest way (albeit error prone to translators). That being
> said though, we would be very happy if Evolution really wants to be
> the first module to use msgctxt and the C_ macro.

Evolution already requires GLib >= 2.16, and our broader policy is that
anything in the latest stable GNOME release is fair game (though I'm not
sure how recently gettext and intltool added msgctxt support, so maybe
I've already violated policy there).

Assuming I haven't, what would be the impact of being the guinea pig for
msgctxt from a development standpoint?  Personally I'm indifferent at
this point, mostly out of naivety to the issues involved.

Matthew Barnes