At 15:07 7-2-2012 -0800, Arun Persaud wrote:
hmm, I wonder what the best way is to resolve this...My take would be to leave the 0.18 in. I think all newer distributions have 0.18 now (the gettext version was released almost 2 years ago) and older ones could patch it during the package building... this would leave out people who want to compile it themselves and are on older distributions and those should be able to install gettext 0.18 by hand... My solution therefore would be to pump the configure requirement up to 0.18, so that people get an error message in case they don't have the correct version installed...
I think that would be totally fatal for the acceptance of XBoard. Most people compile from source, and if they cannot do it by a simple ./configure, make, they are totally lost. If gettext cannot be made to run without problems for people having 0.17, like me, (and I do run the most-recent long-term-stable version of Ubuntu!), we must make sure it is switched off by default. What good is a translation if we use 90% of our English-speaking users by it?
