Re: Compile issues

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Saluton, Moin,

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> skribis:

> >>> I do understand the i18n and compiler issues.  Was that unclear?
> >> I can't remember what you're referring to.
> > Various of the patterns presumably won't work with internationalized
> > applications in locale fr_CH, for instance (I assume that `file'
> > becomes `fichier', for instance) and it doesn't look as though they
> > all work with non-ASCII commands and/or filenames.  I also commented
> > on the classification and apparent redundancy of he patterns.
> 
> Oh, I see now.  Are these problems specific to the new compile.el or
> where they somehow absent in the old compile.el ?

These issues are not new, but nonetheless a huge headache.  While creating
translated messages is something any translator can achieve, parsing them does
require regexp knowhow.  The easy way out, (setq compilation-environment
'("LANG=C")), is hardly compatible with the goals of internationalization.

The present alist is a complex knowledge base, which covers so wide spread
message sources, that no one could possibly have access to them all, to try
them out.  I myself have verified and completed maybe at most one third of
what is there.  For the rest I just believed the old mode and its comments.

Even if I put in my knowledge of german and french, that would only be
guessing what the translation might really be.  And it'd still cover only a
minuscule fraction of the possible languages.

> >> If you tell us what the user does,
> > Types C-c C-k and then C-x `.

Which is fixed, so how long are you going to discuss last weeks errors.

> > I doubt that helps.
> 
> You bet.  Looking at http://www.erlang.org/download/contrib/erlang.el (I
> assume that's what we're talking about), I don't see anything that would
> obviously break with the new code.  But maybe the problem is that the new
> compile.el reads compilation-error-regexp-alist too early and doesn't
> notice when erlang.el adds stuff to it.  Basically the problem is that in
> the old compile.el the variable was only read when you hit C-x ` or
> somesuch whereas in the new code it is read immediately when you turn on
> the compilation-mode.

This is true, but I believe it was Dave who said, he had a command that calls
compile.  So it would be easy for erlang to modify the alist before that.

coralament / best Grötens / liebe Grüße / best regards / elkorajn salutojn
Daniel Pfeiffer

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