Re: reworking sysinst: A Lua based msg system

[Marc Balmer <mbalmer%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Am 04.03.12 15:03, schrieb Martin Husemann:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 02:46:19PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> I guess what martin means here is that the message catalogs should not be
>> inside LUA scripts, but in separate files (just as they are now).
> 
> I don't think it should be in Lua syntax.

That's part of the design, that messages are in Lua syntax.

> I don't care about most implementations details, as long as we can
> make sure *at (cross) compile time* that the set is ok and complete and
> we will not run into syntax erros later on some rarely tested arch in
> some uncommon language.

I agree and I think that can be guaranteed when we define e.g. english
as the fallback language.  Some sort of message checker will be needed
that can be run at (cross) compile time.