From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30839 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2010 14:45:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 30823 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Aug 2010 14:45:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:45:30 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DDA2BABB1; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:45:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id WwsElq2ZicRe; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:45:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E7D2BAB8E; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:45:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD070F58FA; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:45:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Vladimir Prus Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: New ARI warning Sat Aug 14 01:53:52 UTC 2010 Message-ID: <20100816144526.GA3455@adacore.com> References: <20100814015352.GA10686@sourceware.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00219.txt.bz2 > Of above warnings, only first appears to be added by a recent patch of mine, > while others were there all the time. That said, have we ever decided if MI > should try to i18n its error messages? At least some of messages, like > "Unable to read memory" above, can probably be shown to user -- except it's > so generic as to be useless. Some messages, clearly, indicate frontend > bugs and showing them to users, or l10n-ing, makes no sense. For error messages, ISTM that the intent would have to have the error message displayed verbatim by the IDE, no? In that case, it would be better if it was translated than not. Otherwise, we place the burden of providing translations on the IDE, which I think is a bad idea. -- Joel