[ros-dev] RE: Ros-dev Digest, Vol 14, Issue 25

[Thomas Weidenmueller]

Lucio Diaz wrote:
> David Hinz wrote:
> 
> 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...

Uhm...why not simply watch SVN or take a look at the svn logs?

- Thomas