Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras
> > <felipe contreras gmail com> wrote:
> > >  Is there any reason?
> > I don't know. If I had to guess, it probably wasn't seen as worth
> > maintaining. After all none of the other features of GLib have random
> > --disable-feature options. Searching in bugzilla might find related
> > bug discussion.
>
> And also because glib provides i18n for applications and libraries above
> it, and convenience functions for UTF-8, etc. that wouldn't be available
> on Unix systems without NLS support.

Disabling NLS support might be quite useful for people on embedded 
systems and/or people who are using glib for only a part of their 
application and use a different translation framework.

	-brian