Re: [PATCH] Support generate poison .mo files for testing

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

test-poisongen does a similar job to gettext poison feature except
that it does it at build time. Gibberish .mo files are generated for
all supported langauges and put in po/build/poison-locale. Target
"poison-locale" is for this.

What is the significance of this locale being "Gibberish"?
Currently, for any string, we give "### gettext poison ###" or
something but the only thing we care about in the poison mode is
that it is different from the message id, no?  I was wondering if
these phony translations can be something simple like "Add QQ at the
beginning of the message id string" and still can catch mistakenly
marked messages that come from the plumbing layer, or something.

As you have already written a printf skipper that looks fairly
conservative, perhaps I shouldn't be worried too much about it, but
we seem to be spending considerable effort on the "poison", and it
makes me wonder (even though no better alternative comes to mind) if
we could do better.  The reason we do "poison" (be it the current
one or locale based one) in the first place is so that we want to
make sure messages from the plumbing are not marked for i18n, and we
do so by running our test under the "poison" mode that produces
output different from the in-code text that are marked for i18n,
which somehow feels quite a roundabout way of doing so.

User can run the test with these .mo files by setting POISON_LOCALE
while running the test suite. User must also set LANG/LC_* correctly
(and the system is supposed to support that locale).

 OK let me redo step one. test-poisongen requires libgettextpo. I'm
 not sure if this library if gnu specific. We may need another flag
 for it instead of NO_GETTEXT. We don't need a fake language code with
 this approach.

		
OK.

 Makefile         |  19 ++++++++
 t/test-lib.sh    |  10 +++-
 test-poisongen.c | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 wrap-for-bin.sh  |   6 ++-
 4 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 mode change 100644 => 100755 t/test-lib.sh
 create mode 100644 test-poisongen.c
 mode change 100644 => 100755 wrap-for-bin.sh

Thanks.  I suspect two mode changes weren't intentional?

+static void translate(const char *msg, struct strbuf *buf)
+{
+	const char *end = msg + strlen(msg);
+	const char *text = "* GETTEXT POISON *";
+	int text_len = strlen(text);
+	int t = 0;
+
+	strbuf_reset(buf);
+	/* preserve \n and printf format specifiers because msgfmt
+	   barfs otherwise. */
+	while (msg < end) {
+		/* printf specifiers and shell variables, it's a quite
+		   relax check */
+		if ((*msg == '%' || *msg == '$') && msg+1 < end) {
+			strbuf_addch(buf, *msg++);
+			do
+			       strbuf_addch(buf, *msg);
+			while (msg < end && !isspace(*msg++));
+		} else if (*msg == '\n') {
+			/* we only need to preserve trailing newlines, doing
+			   more does not really harm */
+			strbuf_addch(buf, '\n');
+			msg++;
+		} else {
+			strbuf_addch(buf, text[t]);
+			t = (t + 1) % text_len;
+			msg++;
+		}
+	}
+}