Re: [Evms] Questions about portability

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:44:40PM -0200, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > > Obviously, the file system code is going to be shared between partition
> > > and LVM environments, so the code is going to be there, but it doesn't
> > > need to appear in the LVM interface.
> > 
> > True.  What about
> > 
> >         ext2resize.c            --> core ext2fs resizing code
> >         ext2resize_parted.c     --> glue for libparted (incl partition 
> > stuff)
> >         ext2resize_stand.c      --> standalone glue ?
> 
> The stand-alone stuff shouldn't need a file-system-specific front end,
> if it conforms to a common interface, right?

Right - you could also add the main() function directly to the main source
file, sourrounded by an ifdef.

> How do you know what to grep for?  What if you have incomplete
> translations
> (so parts of it come out in another language)

A simple commandline switch, that prefixes the translated messages with
[translated] and additionally gives out the untranslated one.
(Ok - it's going to be ugly, but it should be decided case by case).

        Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.