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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] git-sh-i18n--envsubst: our own envsubst(1) for eval_gettext()
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:52:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTino5PpXY8eD+T3Ki+2Xn1MLjZojTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsjsor29t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 05:17, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Or are we sure that this can't work in POSIX (or non-POSIX shells)?
>
> You need to implement the same logic to tokenize enough to understand the
> expansion the shell does inside dq.  Yes, shell is general programming
> language and you can theoretically implement it, but would the result be a
> practical solution?  I doubt it.

I'll write a better commit message and re-send this soon (after some
other comments have trickled in).

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-09  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-08 12:10 [PATCH 0/4] i18n: Add shell script translation infrastructure Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-08 12:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] git-sh-i18n--envsubst: our own envsubst(1) for eval_gettext() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-08 17:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-08 21:33     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-09  3:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-09  7:52         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2011-05-08 12:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] git-sh-i18n.sh: add no-op gettext() and eval_gettext() wrappers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-08 12:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] git-sh-i18n.sh: add GIT_GETTEXT_POISON support Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-08 12:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] Makefile: add xgettext target for *.sh files Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-08 17:03 ` [PATCH 0/4] i18n: Add shell script translation infrastructure Sverre Rabbelier
2011-05-08 21:38   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-08 21:45     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-05-08 21:52       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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