Re: automake and i18n

[Akim Demaille]

 > Hi,
 > beginning with version 0.13, GNU gettext has full support for Perl
 > scripts, with libintl-perl (http://search.cpan.org/dist/libintl-perl/)
 > there is a stable runtime environment for gettext like message
 > translation in Perl, and with yours truly there is somebody available
 > that would volunteer to make the necessary modifications for
 > internationalizing automake.

 > It is possible to do the internationalization in such a way, that
 > automake would still run without libintl-perl being installed.
 > License problems should not be an issue, libintl-perl is distributed
 > under the LGPL.  As for the required Perl version, Perl 5.004 is
 > sufficient for libintl-perl.

 > Comments?

Do you know any maintainer that does not know English?  In other
words, what's the use?  Will you translate the documentation too?