Re: [ros-dev] RE: Ros-dev Digest, Vol 14, Issue 25

[Thomas Weidenmueller]

Lucio Diaz wrote:
>   David Hinz wrote:
>  Hey guys,
>  when I just translated format, I stunbled over one
>  thing:
>  What if somebody changed the content of a string after
>  I translated it?
>  After some minutes, I had a easy solution for that
>  problem:
>  The En.rc gets a little line in it's head-comment with
>  a revision
>  number. Each time somebody changes or adds a string in
>  the En.rc, he
>  sets the revision number +1 and so all translators
>  have an easy to
>  control indicator, if they need to translate something
>  or not.
>  But I think one thing should be clear, if there just
>  has been corrected
>  a spelling mistake and not something important, the
>  revision number
>  won't be touched.
>  Now some example headers:
>  in the EN.rc:
>  /*
>    * Moved all hardcoded strings to En.rc.
>    * By Magnus Olsen  2005
>    *
>    * Revision: 1
>    */
>  in my De.rc:
>  /*
>    * Moved all hardcoded strings to En.rc.
>    * By Magnus Olsen  2005
>    * First German Translation by David Hinz 20051010
>    *
>    * Translated Revision 1 of En.rc
>    */
>  This is just an idea, but I think this could save a
>  lot of work on
>  bigger applications than format... 
Uhm...why not simply watch SVN or take a look at the svn logs?
- Thomas