Re: GNU poke 0.90 pre-released

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> Hello Jose,
>
>> 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.

I think all the problems you report are fixed in the commit below, which
will be part of the next pre-release.

commit 834c58c04757100fa0309329bc5c6ea0e3772692 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, 
origin/HEAD)
Author: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 20 20:37:16 2021 +0100

    Fix several problems with the translatable strings.
    
    Problems reported by Benno Schulenberg.
    
    2021-02-20  Jose E. Marchesi  <jemarch@gnu.org>
    
            * poke/poke.c (print_help): Use a puts statement for each header
            and option, and do not finish them with periods.
            * poke/pk-cmd-ios.c (pk_cmd_load_file): Use pk_fatal and an
            uniform message when out of memory.
            (pk_cmd_mem): Likewise.
            * poke/pk-map.c (entry_name_to_varname): Likewise.
            * poke/poke.h (pk_assert_alloc): Likewise.
            * libpoke/pkl-trans.c (pkl_trans1_ps_print_stmt): Start error
            messages with a lower case.