Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:54 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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.

And it means that a lot of convenience functions for UTF-8 handling
wouldn't work. Gettext support is in the libc for Linux, what's the
point in disabling it?