Re: [PATCH] version: fix copyright year

[Jim Meyering]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 12:01 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> >  Heh, I couldn't put my hands on it, so I went for the small patch to
>>> >  fix the immediate need (wrong copyright year).
>>
>> Taking that as an ACK, I've pushed the version_etc-using patch.
>
> Yeah, the patch was okay.  The only question I have is why using
> proper_name is necessary.  Isn't _("...") enough?

Technically, proper_name isn't necessary, but "proper_name (...)" does
give more information to the translator than _(...).  Also, in general,
when an author's name has a translation, proper_name provides
functionality that some think is worthwhile: it returns
"TRANSLATION (NAME)", where "NAME" is the original ASCII argument.