Re: Stable ab/i18n branch

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:28, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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No benefit? The benefit is that the program they previously either
didn't understand or understood poorly is now talking to them in their
native language. That's a pretty big benefit.

And for the languages that are not translated yet?

Yeah those would get odd regressions with no benefit, unfortunately.

Don't get me wrong --- I'm only trying to give a sense of what it is
like for a user to experience a regression.  It is generally little
solace that someone else's use case is supported better.

Understood. And it's certainly good that these things are pointed out.

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      So unless someone else is interested in helping audit all that
code, providing a printf() fallback on glibc etc. it'll block the i18n
series.

Oh, I never meant to say that this should be a blocker.  Only that
there really are costs and benefits to weigh.

Much more important than the known bugs are the unknown bugs ---
you've heard this before, I think.  The way to get rid of unknown bugs
(aside from inspecting code) is to get users.

For example, if Gerrit doesn't mind, I would like to apply your
patches to experimental once the version being staged for squeeze
clears from there.

That would be great. Let me know if I can help with that in some way.