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["Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

What exactly does gettext do? I've seen it on every linux box that I've 
ever had.

Jeremy

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jason Flatt 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.
> 
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