[MPlayer-dev-eng] rfc, uniform labeling of messages?

[Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:08:26PM +0200, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:39:05AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:18:56AM -0400, Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet wrote:
> > > Ok, there is a huge bunch of help messages prefixed in no known
> > > form whatsoever but  almost all they use some variation of [foobar],
> > > [im this module]. etc. Well, even tho this could be a nono from the
> > > start, attached patch makes all message have a prefix stating what
> > > module they where generated from.
> > 
> > Hmm, this moves many messages over 80 characters line width.  I'm not
> > sure I like it..
> 
> I am actually against it, for this reason and that most of these
> prefixes are to unspecific to be useful, and I guess close inspection
> would reveal some that are place illogically.

Can you think of a beter way to be able to realize that? of
course there are wrong MSGT's used all over, so are MSGL's
i think a move in this direction can help us spot an fix those.

> It might make sense to do this for some, but a closer look would be
> needed to find that out.
> 

What about making it optional, what about making it an -msglevel 
suboption ?

> Greetings,
> Reimar Doeffinger
> 

Regards

		Reynaldo
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