[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-SVN] r30420 - grass/trunk/scripts/v.db.renamecol

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Maciej Sieczka <tutey at o2.pl> wrote:
>  >> Markus wrote:
>   > Maciek wrote:
>  Hamish pisze:
...
>  >  #### setup temporary file
>  >  TMP="`g.tempfile pid=$$`"
>  >  if [ $? -ne 0 ] || [ -z "$TMP" ] ; then
>  > -    g.message -e "Unable to create temporary files"
>  > +    g.message -e "Unable to create temporary files."
>  >      exit 1
>  >  fi
>  >
>  > IIUC the message standardization has been to not end single sentence
>  > warnings and errors with a ".", only to do that with module
>  > descriptions. (I don't know if I agree with that all the time, but a
>  > lot of effort has gone in to making it that way)
>
>  A sentence without a period? Strange and not grammatical. What would be
>  the rationalle?
...
>  [1]http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Development_Specs#Standard_messages_sandbox

The key point is not not break again all translations.

Markus