[PATCH 1 of 7] namespaces: add singular name of a namespace

[Ryan McElroy]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> On 12/16/2014 04:01 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com>
> > # Date 1418630992 28800
> > #      Mon Dec 15 00:09:52 2014 -0800
> > # Node ID 47d0996687d81753386f01e26037be30992dbb59
> > # Parent  39cead85fd58ae6693592074656b284ed736d9bc
> > namespaces: add singular name of a namespace
> >
> > Since there is no easy way to get the singular or plural form of a word in the
> > English language, we store both. This will be used later in the templating
> > machinery to automatically generate keywords.
> 
> It is not clear to me who you plan to use this singular vs plurals
> things. But in all case, it seems doomed:
> 
>    https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://localization-
> guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/l10n/pluralforms.html&k=ZVNjlDMF0FElm4
> dQtryO4A%3D%3D%0A&r=zxRJZ6melt%2FqLtQ%2Bw2Gaeg%3D%3D%0A&m
> =cyH8RfyIdDLS3V4%2FEMiEwnoeXRdUqxndP5EzbUo%2BFJo%3D%0A&s=2f5
> 6edb60246c22bf13d8f8ba7232242a3038a04d501ebc1b4f7add623f975e0
> 
> Mercurial took the party of not dealing with pluras/singular at all instead.
> 
> What was your planned usecase.
>

I think it's not doomed, it probably just needs to be renamed. This stuff is going to be used in the log output, which in English we identify as singular versions:

changeset:   23787:9b18fe88820e
bookmark:    foo
bookmark:    bar
tag:         tip
...

So it could be called 'logname' and I think we can avoid all the issues with singular/plural internationalization.

~Ryan