The problems with free CVS committing

[Sarah Wang]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 11:27, Bernd Groh wrote:

> >1) If the po file has syntactic errors, the software build will break.
> >This will make software maintainers, many other contributors, and
> >testers *very* unhappy.
> >
> 
> You mean the po-format, which should be taken care of, if you, for 
> example, use KBabel. Ok, agreed, would make me *very* unhappy too. I 
> believe a pre-commit step to simply check the format is ok should 
> suffice. Good idea.

The pre-commit syntax check is already in place. If "msgfmt" of the po
file produce errors, the commit is not allowed.

Sarah