Re: view-fuzzy beta version ready

[Ali Servet Donmez]

Is it in www-el repo?

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 06:12 +0300, George Zarkadas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> view-fuzzy is more or less complete; the most useful way to use it is
> to run (switches in [...] are optional, use --help to find their
> meaning) this command in a fuzzy po file:
> 
> view-fuzzy -m -o <output-file> [-g8] <input-file>
> 
> to strip out all but the changed lines and then open the file with an
> editor that shows comments too, such as emacs. <output-file> can be
> same as <input-file> if you want to ovveride the source file in-place.
> 
> I am currently working on doing this automatically at the merging of
> repositories. But this is still *experimental* and not for those that
> are not willing to have their repositories restored frequently; my
> first attempt erased all my po files (this has been fixed, btw) and
> had to manually revert to previous revisions. I now tag my cvs with
> status-<iso date> tags before each test run.
> 
> The other stuff inside __tools__ is more 'esoteric' and not worth to
> deal with it yet.
> 
> best regards
> George Zarkadas
> 
> 2010/5/16 Ali Servet Donmez <address@hidden>
>         Hi everyone,
>         
>         first of all please excuse me all for very very late reply on
>         this
>         subject.
>         
>         I really would love to get into and discover better what
>         various things
>         under "www-el/__tools__" does (especially "view-fuzzy"), but
>         that's way
>         long code that I couldn't possibly afford atm.
>         
>         Could please somebody sum up what's the current status here?
>         
>         is there anything new in GnuMakefile.team which is useful for
>         translation teams?
>         
>         Thanks in advance.
>         
>         Best regards,
>         
>         On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 01:04 +0200, George Zarkadas wrote:
>         
>         
>         > The script is in beta now, and have already passed all po
>         files in
>         > philosophy (and gnu) subtrees with reasonable speed and no
>         obvious at
>         > first sight errors.
>         >
>         > Available at:
>         >
>         
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www-el/__tools__/view-fuzzy?revision=1.12&root=www-el&view=markup
>         >
>         > All wdiff options that make sense are supported as well as
>         custom
>         > wdiff executables. Common options can be set by env vars;
>         see --help
>         > for details.
>         >
>         > As I see it, there are two main uses:
>         >
>         > 1. View quickly all changes in fuzzy records in a set of
>         files in a
>         > terminal window; for example:
>         >
>         > [wdiff style]: view-fuzzy -ap /some-path/www/gnu/po/*.xx.po
>         > [with color ]: view-fuzzy -h c
>         -a /some-path/www/gnu/po/*.xx.po
>         >
>         > 2. Merge diff with the initial po file to produce a file
>         that can be
>         > edited with emacs or any po-editor that can display
>         comments; so that
>         > highlighted changes are visible while editing the file. For
>         example:
>         >
>         > view-fuzzy -m -o dest-file src-file
>         > or even:
>         > view-fuzzy -m -o src-file src-file
>         >
>         > In addition, when we are certain that no spurious errors may
>         result in
>         > data loss of the original file's msgids and msgstrs, then I
>         believe it
>         > will be relatively easy to incorporate in the team's
>         GNUmakefile a
>         > repository update mode that will automatically merge the
>         diffs in
>         > local team's po files. What's your opinion about this?
>         >
>         > regards
>         > G. Zarkadas
>         
>         --
>         
>         Ali Servet Donmez <address@hidden>
>         
> 
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