Re: ABOUT-NLS

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello Micah,

Excerpt of what Micah Cowan wrote:
> Benno, I'm mailing you because the gettext info manual says to
> send queries to you.

Hmm, does it?  <seeks>  Indeed: `info gettext trans org mail`.  
That's the reference you meant?

Bruno, I think the sections 12.4 (Organization) and 12.5 
(Information flow) of the gettext manual can be deleted entirely.

About your automake/ABOUT-NLS stuff, Micah, I have no idea.  Bruno 
Haible has taken over maintenance of gettext since those outdated 
sections were written.  So I'm CC'ing him.

All of what Micah Cowan wrote:
> Automake complains/dies if ABOUT-NLS is missing from packages
> that use GNU gettext.
>
> However, the ABOUT-NLS file contains much content that assumes
> the package includes gettext (libintl). For this reason I had
> removed ABOUT-NLS from Wget repositories (which I had only
> recently added in during our move to Automake), thus discovering
> Automake's issued error.
>
> For myself at the moment, I'm fine with putting it back in and
> eliding the inaccurate information about running ./configure
> --with-included gettext, etc. For the longer term, though, might
> I suggest that ABOUT-NLS be modified to include verbage such as
> "this package may support", "if this package includes an intl/
> directory", or similar, to qualify those places where
> accompanying gettext is assumed?
>
> Alternatively, an ABOUT-NLS "lite" might be provided, for use by
> projects that don't include gettext in their packages, eliding
> the inapplicable content.
>
> One example of the sort of thing I'm talking about:
> > If you want to exploit the full power of internationalization,
> > you should configure it using
> >
> >      ./configure --with-included-gettext
> >
> > to force usage of internationalizing routines provided within
> > this package, despite the existence of internationalizing
> > capabilities in the operating system where this package is
> > being installed.
>
> If one of these changes are agreeable, I'd be happy to submit a
> patch to this effect.
>
> Benno, I'm mailing you because the gettext info manual says to
> send queries to you.
>
> I'm also mailing the automake list to allow them to discuss
> whether the requirement on ABOUT-NLS should be altered (I'm
> guessing it's probably better to alter ABOUT-NLS as mentioned
> though).

Regards,

Benno