[Dnsmasq-discuss] TFTP FIXME message

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Mon Apr 2 10:00:08 BST 2012


On 02/04/12 06:52, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Simon,
>
> Du meintest am 01.04.12:
>
>>> my (self made) dnsmasq 2.60 always tells
>>>
>>> TFTP FIXME: this and the next few must be full strings to be
>>> translatable - do not assemble in code/tftpboot
>>>
>>> when it gets started.
>>>
>>> What does that message mean?
>
>> It means that my code builds English sentences on the fly and that
>> makes translating into German difficult (Because the word order
>> different is).
>
>> The German translation (in the file po/de.po ) is sadly out-of-date,
>> but if anyone wants to work on it, I'll happily try and fix the
>> messages to make it easier.
>
> Ok - it's no error message but only a kind of reminder for that nice guy
> who will fill this file "po/de.po".
>
> Searching for "FIXME" only shows this file, searching for "translatable"
> only shows "network.c" (line 785). But then I can't imagine which
> english text has to be translated.
>

The problem is here:

#: dnsmasq.c:588
msgid "root is "
msgstr "FIXME: this and the next few must be full strings to be 
translatable - do not assemble in code"

I'll move the FIXME to a comment for now, pending work on the translation.

Cheers,

Simon.






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