Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 16:54:00 -0700
- From: "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib
Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Is there any reason?
>>>
>> I don't know. If I had to guess, it probably wasn't seen as worth
>> maintaining. After all none of the other features of GLib have random
>> --disable-feature options. Searching in bugzilla might find related
>> bug discussion.
>
> And also because glib provides i18n for applications and libraries above
> it, and convenience functions for UTF-8, etc. that wouldn't be available
> on Unix systems without NLS support.
Disabling NLS support might be quite useful for people on embedded
systems and/or people who are using glib for only a part of their
application and use a different translation framework.
-brian
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