On 23 December 2013 22:32, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I gave up maintainership of > hello, so do what you will. >
Since hello is supposed to be an example within the GNU project, I'd rather not simply impose my views; and I think this is a subject worth discussing. To me, the use of i18n'ed text is absolutely basic, as otherwise, users of most languages are excluded. GNU gettext is basic infrastructure, and it seems reasonable that at some point in even a basic program that uses internationalised text, it would have to do other than simply reproduce that text. There are plenty of other "specific programming features", such as command-line parsing, that are of necessity showcased in GNU hello, precisely because such features are required by almost all programs. If the goal of hello were simply to showcase *build* infrastructure, then it could be much simpler, and really ought to do nothing other than literally say "hello" (still i18n'ed, of course!). -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
