Re: FYI, a few more: gettext, updates from gnulib, typo

[Jim Meyering]

Otavio Salvador wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Petr Uzel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:00:08PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>     > >>
>     > >> -AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.15])
>     > >> +AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18])
>     > >
>     > > Shouldn't this be [0.17] ? ^^^^
>     >
>     > Good catch.  Thanks.
>     >
>     > That would make it match the log.
>     > Would my requiring 0.18 cause trouble for you personally?
>
>     SUSE, which I use on my development system, has gettext-0.17 and won't
>     update it anytime soon (we are in version freeze for 11.3).
>
>     So sticking to gettext-0.17 would make it easier for me, but if you
>     decide to require 0.18, I'll cope with that.
>
> I think that require an update that give us no gain is bad. I'd prefer that 
> 0.17
> was use until 0.18 is more commonly available in distros.

I wouldn't have suggested using 0.18 if it were for no gain.
However 0.17 is adequate, so we'll require only that, for now.