Re: GNU poke 0.90 pre-released

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hi Benno.

Many thanks for reporting the problems.

We will fix them in the next-prerelease 0.91 and let you know when we
release it.

There is definitely no hurry: we expect we will need to do several
pre-releases before 1.0.

>> The pre-release poke-0.90.tar.gz is now available at
>> https://jemarch.net/poke-0.90.tar.gz.
>
> Wget and Firefox complain about the certificate for that URL.
> So I took the tarball from here:
>
>   https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-0.90.tar.gz
>
>> The planned date for releasing 1.0 is Friday 27 February 2021, but
>> this may change depending on the amount of problems found in this
>> pre-release, and the subsequent needed additional pre-releases.
>
> I've looked through the POT file and noticed the following things.
> First the most important:
>
> msgid ""
> "Commanding poke from the command line:\n"
>
> "  -c, --command=CMD                   execute the given command.\n"
>
> "  -s, --source=FILE                   execute commands from FILE.\n"
>
> Please put each option and section header into a separate puts statement,
> so that later, when you add new options, it is just another string for the
> translators, instead of invalidating also the translations of several existing
> descriptions.  And this way the translators don't have to painstakingly check
> that the existing parts of the msgid really didn't change.
>
> Also, please remove the period at the end of the option descriptions.  They
> are not the custom, and are typographically incorrect.  When a sentence ends
> with a period,  it should start with a capital.  If there is no capital (as
> is custom in option descriptions) then there should be no period.
>
>
> msgid "out of memory\n"
>
> msgid "out of memory"
>
> msgid "Out of memory"
>
> Shouldn't these all have the same form?
>
>
> msgid "Base with more than 64 bits"
>
> msgid "Expected decimal digit after %u"
>
> The surrounding error message all start with a lowercase letter.
> Shouldn't these too?
>
>
> I will hold off announcing poke to the translators until you have addressed
> the above issues.  Poke is a new package (for the TP), so there is no hurry
> to get the translations up to date.
>
> Regards,
>
> Benno