Re: CVS & Gettext

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>> Err, but is this really what is recommended?  It means, if my
>> reading is correct, that you will simply not use
>> internationalization on systems that don't have GNU Gettext.

Bruno> Yes, this is what it means. The reasoning is that nowadays, the
Bruno> glibc based systems are more important than other Unix
Bruno> systems. 

Yep, I know this thinking.  I was actually waiting to see it spreading
before actually using it.

Bruno> By recommending AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) we hope that more
Bruno> packages will become i18ned, since they don't have to carry
Bruno> around 500 KB of C code with them. The poor OSF/1 and Solaris
Bruno> users who want i18ned software should install gettext first,
Bruno> and they will be rewarded by a shared library libintl.so
Bruno> (instead of a static one earlier, which increased the size of
Bruno> every executable).

Yep, that's very good, indeed.

I suppose it still requires for the other maintainers to install
Gettext too right?  So really intl is to be cvsignore ;)

Bruno> Still, there are some bugs in the autoconf macros in
Bruno> 0.11.1. I'd recommend AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) only starting
Bruno> from gettext 0.11.2.

Point taken, I'll wait for it.  Thanks!