Re: [ros-dev] rbuild auto generated resources

[Alex Ionescu]

Yeah, and this is how Steven Edwards ended up writing most of the  
kernel according to svn blame, because he did the great work of  
removing empty lines with whitespaces.

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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

On 11-Nov-07, at 6:19 PM, Magnus Olsen wrote:

>   authure names
>  Marc Piulachs  have u heard about svn blame
>  it review which person wrote a special file and which line that
>  person have done a change.
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Timo Kreuzer
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:56 PM
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] rbuild auto generated resources
>
>  Marc Piulachs schrieb:
> >  
> >  Please can you take a few seconds to think and answer me what's the
> >  difference between <file>source.c</file> and <localization
> >  isoname="en-US">en-US.rc</localization>? Exacly none.
> >  
>  I agree in this point. It's just a logical step to do it this way.
> >  
> > >   So instead of outsource the information
> > > (developer, translator,
> > >  language-info, etc.) from the source code to external rbuild files,
> > >  keep the data in place where it belongs to.
> > >  It's the parsers job to parse the source and extract it, and put it
> > >  together in a meaningful way (generate static output, be it xml or
> > >  html).
> > >  
> >  In my opinion is just the opposite, move the information where it  
> >  really
> >  belongs, when you talk about a developer or a translator working  
> >  in a piece
> >  of code you refer them in a particular context , in this case a whole
> >  module, the same for mantainers or translators , they are global  
> >  to the
> >  module.
> >
> >  Once again, the data extracted from parsing is not TRUE metadata just
> >  meaningless strings that you can guess or interpret : "author :  
> >  jdoe" ,
> >  "author : jhondoe" , "author : jhon doe" are 3 different persons and
> >  <author>Jhon Doe</author> just one , I think it's obvious.
> >  
>  I disagree here. IMO information about developers and translators  
>  belong to svn. They should neither go into the sources nor into  
>  rbuild files. If you want to find out about it, ask svn and it will  
>  tell you the exact name. We also don't really have maintainers for  
>  most modules, so most rbuild files would be spammed with the names  
>  of lots of developers without saying anything about who wrote a  
>  paticular piece of code.
>
>  Regards,
>  Timo
>
>
>
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