Re: [Evms] Questions about portability

[Andrew Clausen]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yep, you could.  I prefer code reuse ;-)

> > 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).

Yeah, that's better.

Andrew Clausen