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  • From: Arjan Bouter <a_bouter AT ezrs.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Gettext . . .
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:55:54 +0200

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:46:59 +0000
Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com> wrote:

> As an excercise for my own personal amusement and system requirement, I
> have
> been working on trying to make gettext an optional dependency in the
> grimoires, but I have reached a stopping point for me. I was able to
> modify
> several spells and get the packages to compile and work (AFAICT) correctly
> w/o gettext. My stopping points are at glib2 and orbit and pretty much
> anything depending them.
>
> I do currently have a fairly functional system w/xorg and several window
> managers (including AfterStep and WindowMaker) installed and running. It
> seems, however, that any GTK+ or GTK+2 based app (anything GNOME or
> Enlightenment, for example) will need to have gettext installed. For
> anyone
> who has a CLI only system or a minimal windowing system and who is not
> interested in having gettext on their system, it is possible. Also, our
> basesystem does not /need/ gettext.
>
> I haven't ventured into the Qt/KDE area to see how possible it would be to
> have a gettext free system
>
> My question at this point is, is this anything anyone is interested in? I
> know we frequenlty quote the "Coice is good" creedo, but if no one is
> really
> interested in this particular choice, then I won't bother with submitting
> updated spells, nor continuing to see if there is anything else that may
> optionally depend on gettext.
>

As I often use a laptop (where hd space is limited), every spell I can go
without is welcome. The question is, do we gain much space by not using
gettext?
Is there a speed increase? Any other advantages?

Arjan Bouter
(abouter)

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