Re: [evolution-patches] Patch for handling plural forms (bug #53464)

[Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org>]

Hi,

JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com> writes:

> The calendar parts seem fine to me, but I'm a bit worried about the
> table stuff as discussed in the bug.

As discussed in the bug, table is very bad from l10n point of view.
It seems to be necessary to balance off good- and bad- sides of each,
but it's also essential that the bug be resolved completely.

> Also, is ngettext dependent on a particular version of gettext?

Yes, but current Gnome libraries Evolution 2.0 is depending on
probably already depend on ngettext, so there should be no problem
(Gnome 2.6 uses it everywhere, Gnome 2.4 only sporadicaly).
I'm sure ngettext is available in GNU gettext 0.11.* (it was
introduced in 0.10.fourty-something or somewhere around it), and in
gettext provided by Solaris 9 and higher (perhaps with some patches
applied).

Most maintainers who do the check in configure.in actually check for
function "ngettext" (AC_CHECK_FUNC or something), and stop the
compilation if it's not there.

Cheers,
Danilo