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+Idea:
+- the master is gettext, a logger and a set of category, message ids in a
+  header file
+- produce an .mc file from it, which can be used in the event logger
+  application as message/category DLL
+- maybe its awk/sed in the beginning
+
+Links:
+- members.tripod.com/~ashimg/Parser.html
+- cscope
+- mcpp_lib
+
+we must find all wolf_log calls in a given set of source files (in this case
+libwolf.dll), later we also need a merger for at least wolfmsg.mc and app.mc
+
+foreach call to wolf_log we get:
+- wolf level:  must be mapped to 'Severity'
+- the category_id (is passed in ReportEvent directly, we don't need it to
+  generate the MC file, also the categories and their names are few and
+  change not too often, so we hard-code them)
+- message_id (we need it here expanded)
+  - the Severity, the Facility and the message_id form the 'MessageId'
+- _( ) format string or message: this is the msgid in gettext and gets
+  the English version in the MC file
+- for each msgid we must search for the msgstr in the corresponding gettext
+  file and map it to the right language
+- The 'SymbolicName' is tricky: we need the define from log/messages.h,
+  unexpanded
+
+1) Easy way to find all calls of wolf_log with macros correctly expanded
+find . -name '*.c' -exec cat {} \; | mcpp -DLINUX
+ -DOS_MAJOR_VERSION=2 -DOS_MINOR_VERSION=6 -DENABLE_NLS=1 -I. -I
+- /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.3/include -I../include/wolf | grep
+- / wolf_log\(
+
+2) The logger must map the messageid correcly (masks)
+
+3) Sort out the problems with message.dll installation and the registry in
+   the event source
+