Re: Adding I18N support to ATK

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:46:05AM +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au> writes:
> > The method you have used is designed to force glib-gettextize to be
> > used, which is probably a bit safer in the long wrong; the generic
> > method will run gettextize if glib-gettextize is not found and this has
> > "interesting" (a.k.a. annoying) side-effects for gettext-0.11.
> 
> gettext now comes with a new feature called "autopoint" said to work
> around the gettextize issues.  By now I didn't bother to figure out how
> it is considered to work; it's still on my agenda.

Interesting. 'autopoint' is almost a solution and when gettext-0.11
becomes more wide spread it might be _the_ solution. I don't think we've
gone to that requirement for GNOME yet. My impression from reading the
autopoint code, though, is that somebody is trying to be too cute.
Setting up a mini CVS repository on the local machine to "check out" the
updates from in order to save a few bytes is fancy, but it leaves a
strange impression with me (although sometime around version -0.99 it
may be a far-sighted stroke of genius).

[...]
> Probably, that's not what you are talking about, but I like to point
> out again gettext moved away from ALL_LINGUAS; now you can list
> available translations in po/LINGUAS.

And we can't go there without requiring gettext-0.11.

Malcolm

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