Re: libfoo2 vs. libfoo

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On 15 Oct 2001, jacob berkman wrote:

> so there's no good reason to name the various tarballs "libfoo2".  gtk+
> has a special po/Makefile.in.in which uses GETTEXT_PACKAGE to get around
> the translations conflicts.
>
> this affects libgnome*, gnome-vfs, gconf, libbonobo*, etc.
>
> are there any problems with going this route?  i plan on doing this in
> my snapshot builds, as i'd like the packages to have the same name as
> havoc's gnomehide ones, and also not have .mo conflicts.  (ie, i'd be
> doing the work and posting patches here and to maintainers).

Sounds great. Just some caution: one have to make sure that gettextize
is not called to overwrite po/Makefile.in.in .

Abel