[jbosstools-dev] Adding $NON-NLS$ comments

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

ah - I did not see your welcome mail before I answered the other question  
;)

In any way, welcome ;)

/max

> G'day all,
>
> I'm part of Red Hat's i18n team, and sooner or later (or a bit of both)  
> I'm going to be working on internationalising JBoss Tools (and  
> DevStudio).  I gather quite a bit's been done, but I'm sure there's some  
> work left to do...
>
> To that end, I would like to make use of Eclipse's warning for  
> "Non-externalized strings (missing/unused $NON-NLS$ tag)" at least in my  
> own development workspace.  (Perhaps as part of the build process one  
> day.)
>
> This would cause Eclipse to generate a warning for any string which  
> isn't followed by the comment: //$NON-NLS-1$
>
> Such warnings are very helpful for pinpointing strings which need to be  
> replaced with ResourceBundle lookups.  Other strings (eg containing  
> plugin IDs) would not be changed, just marked with the non-nls comment  
> to record the fact that they have been looked at.
>
> I would probably end up adding quite a few non-nls comments to the code,  
> so it's best I talk about it now, before it ends up all over the  
> codebase!
>
> Regards
>
> Sean.



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-max