Re: [Pingus-Devel] Clanlib 0.8 has been released

[Hans de Goede]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> David Philippi <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yes, that's what I'm doing. Grumble shouldn't be dead AFAIK just not active on 
> > Pingus anymore. If need be he should be reachable.
>
> I kicked gettext out for a reason,
And that reason was if I may ask?

> so I see little need to reintroduce
> it as one of the patches does, if there is something wrong with
> tinygettext (charset for output to console I guess), tinygettext
> should be fixed and not replaced by awefull gettext again.
Whats wrong with it is that it cannot handle character encoding 
conversion in any way (at all) and that it doesn't searches for 
translations on unix in the usual way / location, breaking packaging 
tools like rpm, which expect this location and use it this "info" to 
only install the languages requested by the user.

Also if you would have bothered to take a look you would have seen that 
the patch is very non intrusive and only uses gettext if HAVE_GETTEXT 
get defined, if that is not defined then the current behaviour and code 
paths are kept for 100%.

> About the datadir patch, no idea, if it fixes something, somebody can
> go and commit it.
Again if you would have bothered to take a look you would have known 
that it actually fixes something, I'm not in the habit of comitting 
useless patches.

I'm sorry if I sound a bit harsh, you've done a great job with pingus 
for which I'm very grateful, but maybe its time to pass pingus 
leadership over to someone else?

Regards,

Hans