Re: [PATCH] Do not use gettextize and i18n round 2 Re: I18n: The gettext proposal

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

>> IMO you have yo have a very good reason for, in a project already using
>> autoconf, discarding all the already made infrastructure. I haven't
>> read a
>> valid reason so far. These kind of things make the life of new
>> developers
>> more miserable... IMHO of course. =)
>
> No. Many of the changes you made to the build system were superfluous
> (adding make targets for configure et al.),

That was a convenience for me, I even planned to post those changes in a
separate patch. You can safely ignore them, they are not related in any
way with the i18n thing.

> or introduced a dependency upon automake and GNU make (like the
> po/Makefile.in.in file). As my patch demonstrated, they are
> unnecessary to support gettext.

This is silly, I haven't used automake either. I have an
internationalized "svn" without invoking automake once. Prove me I'm
introducing such dependency.

> I do welcome your efforts to help with the i18n, but I'm not willing
> to see us compromise our build system in the process. -- justin

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Received on Tue Mar 30 20:41:30 2004