We are using these features extensively but find them awkward to use. However, they are very useful as they put all the log messages in one place - which makes documentation for operational staff easier to deal with. We tend to only ever produce an English messages file, and it would be a sizable effort for us if support was now dropped and we had to embed the messages directly or come up with another mechanism.

My preference would be, if possible, leave the feature available but deprecated - maybe by setting a compiler flag to enable usage (opposite to Java I know, but not sure you can get the range of C++ compilers to generate warnings about deprecated features in a straightforward manner).

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