Re: Minimum required gettext and intltool version for Gnome?

[Abel Cheung <deaddog deaddog org>]

On 2003-08-08(Fri) 22:16:01 +0200, Danilo Segan wrote:
> >> but now I noticed that even gnome-desktop and gedit
> >> have strings which I didn't get with intltool-update on CVS.
> >
> >Not even with intltool CVS? Whoa. I guess the only reasonable answer
> >is "file intltool bugs". Feel free to cc: menthos@menthos.com.

Which ones? I'm trying to work on it right now...


> The problems with gnome-desktop and gedit were because they probably 
> required at least xgettext 0.11.x ( in particular 0.11.5 did the work 
> correctly, compared to the older 0.10.38), but I don't remember reading 
> this anywhere, so I never thought there could be a problem.

If that's so, probably you can file a bug report, telling what intltool
missed when you're using older gettext. Then maintainer can decide
whether older gettext shouldn't be used, or intltool should be fixed to
support old gettext.

And I remembered one bug report (about gnumeric) complaining that intltool
can't support Solaris gettext at all. So gettext support needs more
caring here...


> >I believe there were some discussions and even outstanding patches to
> >make intltool require GNU gettext >= 0.12 (see
> >http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99005), but I don't think
> >that has been committed yet. The intltool maintainer, Kenneth, is
> >unreachable.
> 
> I've seen some of it, but I believe this was regarding use of UTF-8 in 
> source messages. Though, this (require at least 0.12) might be a good 
> thing, as long as it is documented as a prerequisite.

I'm trying to make it backward compatible (don't use gettext 0.12
specific feature, if intltool find that gettext don't support 0.12
options), and is mostly done.  Will submit a new patch to #99005
very soon.


> So, my message was more of a warning to translators: watch out if 
> you're using old software: it won't even complain, but may fail (when 
> it complains while failing, everything is ok -- you know something's 
> wrong, as in a case of .lang files -- but it sucks when it doesn't).

<whisper>
intltool is just a bunch of perl scripts gathered together, you can't
expect too much; you have to pray if you want it to work.
</whisper>

Abel


> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
> 
> PS. Feel free to remove some of the CCs, because I'm not sure how 
> relevant this is.
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