Re: Fw: UPDATED (glib-gettextize patch)

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 14:05, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

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> I also think that applying the various suggestions from the porting
> guide to platform libraries is a bit fraught with danger. Those
> guidelines are for people porting their own applications, which
> generally have much less fiddly requirements than a library. It is
> clearly stated at a couple of points that the suggestions there are not
> for everybody and it is reasonable to assume that maintainers of
> bonobo*, libgnome*, etc, know what they are doing and will do the Right
> (and Better) Thing anyway.

Well, someone (don't recall who) mentioned to me that adding
glib-gettextize support might get rid of the problem where
<module>/po/ChangeLog ends up having cvs conflicts when a cvs
update is run.  This would be helpful when running the v-b-s, since
the scripts halt whenever a cvs conflict occurs.  The main 
reason I am currently offering patches for modules is that it
would be nice to have v-b-s builds run completely through
without having to delete a conflicting file, export STARTMODULE
and rerun rebuild.sh a few times.  The inclusion of the additional
changes in my patches is due to the fact that those changes are
recommended in addition to the glib-gettextize changes in the 
Porting Guide.

I am not particularly worried about whether applying additional
changes is fraught with danger, since I am running my patches
past the maintainers.  Hopefully, the maintainers will only 
accept helpful patches.  My hope is that I am being somewhat
helpful to the maintainers.  If I am not, please let me know and
I'll back off.

	Miles