Re: glib compiled without gettext?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 10:17, Xavier Roche wrote:
> > AFAIK, this is not the case. GLib requires gettext and applications
> > depending on GLib may safely assume that it is available.
> > This is a relict from earlier times when --disable-nls was supported.
> 
> But -- apparently, disabling gettext does not break anything (I did not 
> test all glib functions, however) -- and --disable-nls is definitely 
> useful in some cases.

The point is, that we guarantee that if a program is using GLib
it has the gettext facilities available. For example, the other
libraries in the GTK+ library suite don't have to check for
gettext availability and use fallbacks.

Prior to glib-2.0, we considered adding a g_gettext() facilitiy
built in to GLib, but since the Bruno Haible and the FSF were
gracious enough to adjust the GNU gettext license, simply
requiring GNU gettext was a better option.

Regards,
                                         Owen