On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Michael Sobolev wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 02:05:13PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > [...] > > The "portable" one: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > export TEXTDOMAIN=fileutils > > gettext -s "can not change to null group" > > gettext -s "virtual memory exhausted" > > I believe that the latter is much better than the former. As result, what do > you think about splitting gettext package into two? The one that could still > be called `gettext', while second one could be called something like > `gettext-dev'.
Yes, this could be done, but only if it is strictly necessary. [ There could be several ways to split it. I was thinking about a somewhat radical way of splitting it: We could have a "gettext-program" package containing just /usr/bin/gettext ]. > > Or maybe the right thing to do here is to do everything in C (?) > You mean to rewrite the post*, pre* scripts in C? Well, that would be ugly... I was thinking about "things to be internationalized" in general, not package maintainer scripts. BTW: If we plan to internationalize and localize everything, including maintainer scripts, we would have a chicken and egg problem for the preinst scripts, because the message catalogs for them would not be installed yet when they run... -- "2e27c842901e6235732e46e70019610d" (a truly random sig)
