Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Translation of tla

[Tom Lord]

    > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>

    >     Tom> The choices are:

    >     Tom>   a~ include gettext with the distribution
    >     Tom>   b~ rely on external gettext
    >     Tom>   c~ be able to use an external gettext if it is available

    >     Tom> I would go for c~ and maybe for a~ if gettext is very stable
    >     Tom> and not huge.

    > Gettext is quite stable.

    > The GNU gettext distribution is *very* bloated, the tar.gz is
    > 6.5MB.

Thank you for the information.

    > But I would estimate that auto* junk accounts for a couple MB
    > (unzipped) of it, examples (about 25 versions of GNU hello for
    > different programming languages and gooey environments) and po
    > (translation files) for most of the rest.

    > The gettext runtime code and API might be as little as 200kB of source
    > and documentation.

    > OTOH, it's probably available on every platform that arch is.  It's
    > standard on Mac OS X (GNU gettext), SunOS 5.8 (Sun version), and in
    > GNU libc, for the ones I can check offhand, and GNU mirrors supply
    > Windoze binaries.

Ok, so, the choices are:

   c~ be able to use an external gettext if it is available

-t