Hello Micah, Excerpt of what Micah Cowan wrote: > Benno, I'm mailing you because the gettext info manual says to > send queries to you.
Hmm, does it? <seeks> Indeed: `info gettext trans org mail`. That's the reference you meant? Bruno, I think the sections 12.4 (Organization) and 12.5 (Information flow) of the gettext manual can be deleted entirely. About your automake/ABOUT-NLS stuff, Micah, I have no idea. Bruno Haible has taken over maintenance of gettext since those outdated sections were written. So I'm CC'ing him. All of what Micah Cowan wrote: > Automake complains/dies if ABOUT-NLS is missing from packages > that use GNU gettext. > > However, the ABOUT-NLS file contains much content that assumes > the package includes gettext (libintl). For this reason I had > removed ABOUT-NLS from Wget repositories (which I had only > recently added in during our move to Automake), thus discovering > Automake's issued error. > > For myself at the moment, I'm fine with putting it back in and > eliding the inaccurate information about running ./configure > --with-included gettext, etc. For the longer term, though, might > I suggest that ABOUT-NLS be modified to include verbage such as > "this package may support", "if this package includes an intl/ > directory", or similar, to qualify those places where > accompanying gettext is assumed? > > Alternatively, an ABOUT-NLS "lite" might be provided, for use by > projects that don't include gettext in their packages, eliding > the inapplicable content. > > One example of the sort of thing I'm talking about: > > If you want to exploit the full power of internationalization, > > you should configure it using > > > > ./configure --with-included-gettext > > > > to force usage of internationalizing routines provided within > > this package, despite the existence of internationalizing > > capabilities in the operating system where this package is > > being installed. > > If one of these changes are agreeable, I'd be happy to submit a > patch to this effect. > > Benno, I'm mailing you because the gettext info manual says to > send queries to you. > > I'm also mailing the automake list to allow them to discuss > whether the requirement on ABOUT-NLS should be altered (I'm > guessing it's probably better to alter ABOUT-NLS as mentioned > though). Regards, Benno
