Re: [XBoard-devel] new developer release coming soon

[h.g. muller]

At 15:07 7-2-2012 -0800, Arun Persaud wrote:
> hmm, I wonder what the best way is to resolve this...My take would be to
> leave the 0.18 in. I think all newer distributions have 0.18 now (the
> gettext version was released almost 2 years ago) and older ones could
> patch it during the package building... this would leave out people who
> want to compile it themselves and are on older distributions and those
> should be able to install gettext 0.18 by hand... My solution therefore
> would be to pump the configure requirement up to 0.18, so that people
> get an error message in case they don't have the correct version
> installed...

I think that would be totally fatal for the acceptance of XBoard. Most people
compile from source, and if they cannot do it by a simple ./configure, make,
they are totally lost.

If gettext cannot be made to run without problems for people having 0.17,
like me, (and I do run the most-recent long-term-stable version of Ubuntu!),
we must make sure it is switched off by default.

What good is a translation if we use 90% of our English-speaking users by it?