Re: intltool 0.27.1 is available



El mar, 12-08-2003 a las 05:07, Malcolm Tredinnick escribió:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 10:14, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > A new release of the intltool package is available; this time codenamed
> > "Sorry, 0.27 was my firs release :-(". The intltool package is a set of tools
> > for translating the contents of data files using the gettext translation
> > framework.
> > 
> > As always we suggest everyone to upgrade - especially those who are
> > working with UTF-8 strings inside source code (for example, GNUMERIC)
> > 
> > If you have intltool 0.27 you MUST update if you want to use intltool-update
> 
> A possibly silly question that I cannot work out from the source code...
> 
> if a package (I am particularly thinking of gnumeric) requires
> intltool-0.27 because of the UTF-8 strings, does this also require
> gettext-0.12? If so, then intltool needs to complain more, since it
> currently seems to quietly fall back to some older behaviour with older
> gettexts and this may cause trouble down the line.
> 
> Any enlightenment greatly appreciated,

The problem is that GNU gettext is not the only gettext implementation
that people use with intltool, SUN guys have their own implementation,
and thus, we cannot requiere gettext >= 0.12, we can only suggest it
with a warning if you really need it.

Cheers.

> Malcolm
>    ^^^^^-- who only uses non-en locales when showing off GNOME to
> others, but likes to pretend he understands stuff.
> 
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