Re: Translating trace messages

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

Paul> You were way past me, I'm afraid.  To be honest I didn't even
Paul> understand the difference between --trace and --report.

--report is --verbose: it decides what goes into foo.output.  --trace
is just dumping random information on stderr.  It's been precious to
me while debugging various issues.  --trace would have been --debug if
--debug didn't already have a different meaning.

Paul> My usual rule of thumb is that if a feature requires
Paul> natural-language output, it is a "user" feature and not a
Paul> "developer" feature.  (This habit saves the hassle of having to
Paul> decide which strings to translate.  :-)

I understand this, but it makes me feel bad wrt translators.  That's
additional work, and because it's additional work, I also feel less
inclined to change the output.  Which should not happen for
development material.