[libvirt] VIR_WARN and VIR_WARN0: many diags were not marked for translation

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:06:52PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 04:47:50PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> I noticed some VIR_WARN* uses with unmarked (for translation)
> >> strings.  It turns out there are more than 50:
> >>
> >>     $ g grep -E 'VIR_WARN0?\(".*"[,)]'|wc -l
> >>     128
> >>
> >> Here's a sample:
> >>
> >>   src/phyp/phyp_driver.c:        VIR_WARN0("Unable to stat local file.");
> >>   src/phyp/phyp_driver.c:        VIR_WARN0("Unable to open local file.");
> >>   src/qemu/qemu_conf.c:            VIR_WARN0("Failed to get host CPU");
> >
> > Historically we have avoided marking our debugging messages
> > for translation. These messages generally aren't useful for
> > end users, their core purpose is to assist package maintainers
> > & developers receiving bug reports in identifying the problem.
> > Getting bug reports with these messages in non-english languages
> > makes life harder.
> 
> Nonetheless, many of my manual changes highlighted
> existing (bogus) attempts to translate VIR_WARN0? diagnostics.
> Those should be addressed regardless.
> 
> Considering the large number of existing VIR_WARN uses with strings
> marked for translation, do you want to reconsider?
> 
>     $ g grep 'VIR_WARN.*_('|wc -l
>     60
> 
> or would you prefer to remove the _(...) marks on those 60 uses?

Yes, pretty much all of them can be removed. I notice there are also needless
translations in a handful of files with VIR_DEBUG, and for VIR_ERROR too.

Regards,
Daniel
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