Re: Wget bootstrapping problem

[Bruno Haible]

Darshit Shah wrote:
> What Bruno suggests is that Wget sets SKIP_PO=1 in the bootstrap script 
> and then updates the translations during build time.

Yes, that is my second suggestion.

> This is a bad idea. ...
> Not to mention, network access during the build process is often frowned 
> upon.

Indeed, it's best to have all git checkouts and all network accesses done,
before the build starts. I withdraw the second suggestion.

> For the same release, we would end up with users that have different 
> translations depending on when they compiled Wget.

That would be only for people who build from git, not from a tarball
(if it's implemented that way).

I agree that building from a tarball should produce reproducible results.

Bruno