[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: Nagios plugin translation next part ;-)

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:54:55PM +0000, Ton Voon wrote:

> 
> 
> I think the long term view should be to have separate "METRIC" "LEVEL"  
> "Msg", and then these can be translated separately.
> 
> However, I think we probably need a function in utils.c like:
> 
> print_status (metric, LEVEL, msg);
> 
> where print_status prints "%s %s %s", so then you can have msgstr =  
> "%2$s %1$s %s" in the translation (maybe perfdata as an optional  
> parameter).
> 
> But I am a bit loathed to try and put this into the 1.4 release because  
> I can see this would change a bit too many lines of code. Opinions?
>

I suggest deferring any substantial changes in favour of clearing up 
bugs (if possible), accepting patches and contributed plugins.

The plugins really are very useful things as is; I use them directly or 
as a foundation for non Nag scheduled monitoring (eg long term intensive 
monitoring of an intermittent fault that I may not want to be alerted 
about, or simply ad-hoc health checks from remote stuff that doesn't 
require nrpe or friends).

It is good to not jeopardise the good will of the anonymous 
contributors, so perhaps we should do the best we can with the 
internationalisation effort while becoming clear about the costs of the 
various approaches. I am conscious of the far more serious thinking 
about this by Benoit Yves and yourself, so am quite happy to shut up.

> 
> Ton
> 

Yours sincerely.

-- 
Stanley Hopcroft

Network specialist, IT Infrastructure
IP Australia
Ph: (02) 6283 3189  Fax: (02) 6281 1353
PO Box 200 Woden  ACT 2606
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