Re: The internationalization tutorial.

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 6/5/07, Paul Elliott <pelliott io com> wrote:
> In addition to this, it tells you to use:
>
> IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.35.0])
>
> But the Intltool Readme linked to at the bottom of this page:
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch24s02.html
>
> Recommends using:
> AC_PROG_INTLTOOL([minimum required version], [no-xml])

This looks like a bug and should probably be changed (see below).

> What is the difference between IT_PROG_INTLTOOL and AC_PROG_INTLTOOL?
>
> The gtkmm_hello example package also linked to at the bottom of
> the page does not use either!
>
> The gnomemm_hello example package also linked to at the bottom of
> the pages uses: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL
>
> Does any one have an extremely simple gtkmm example program that
> uses intltool?

I believe IT_PROG_INTLTOOL is the new name of the macro provided by
intltool, AC_PROG_INTLTOOL is the old version.  The name was changed
and the old one was deprecated because AC_ prefixes were only supposed
to be used as a 'namespace' for macros that were part of autoconf
itself.  AC_PROG_INTLTOOL is deprecated, so the new name should be
used, but it should still do the same thing as IT_PROG_INTLTOOL, I
believe.  gnomemm_hello should really be updated to use the new name.
Other than that, I think gnomemm_hello is probably a pretty good
simple example of how to use intltool.  Or have you found other issues
with it?  If you have specific issues, feel free to mention them here
and we'll try to help.

--
jonner