Idea for a new part in headers of .rc files

[David Hinz]

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...

Greets,

David Hinz

[Nathan Woods]

Is there a way in SVN to query which revision any given file was last 
modified?  If so, I could throw together a perl script that looked for 
xx.rc files that are in the same directory as en.rc files that were more 
recently modified.

[Mark de Wit]

Instead of making up another number, why not just reference the svn version 
the translation is based on?

Mark
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Subject: [ros-dev] Idea for a new part in headers of .rc files


>   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...
>
>  Greets,
>
>  David Hinz
>
>
>
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>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>

[David Hinz]

Mark de Wit schrieb:

>   Instead of making up another number, why not just
> reference the svn 
>  version the translation is based on?
>
>  Mark
>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hinz" <post.center(a)gmail.com>
>  To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>rg>; "ReactOS 
>  Translate List" <ros-translate(a)reactos.org>
>  Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:16 PM
>  Subject: [ros-dev] Idea for a new part in headers of .rc files
>
>
> >   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...
> >
> >  Greets,
> >
> >  David Hinz
> >
> >
> >
> >  _______________________________________________
> >  Ros-dev mailing list
> >  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
> >  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
> >  
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>  
The svn version changes, even if just a little spelling mistake was 
corrceted.

But if all the things I want to do are possible with svn please excuse 
me, I'm new to svn.