[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/4 v1] Remove gettextify, implement OCaml gettext.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 07:43:36PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Version 1 of the patch, for discussion, but not to be applied.  It
> > does work, but needs a lot more testing.
> > 
> > This removes all the psychopathic gettextify cruft, and replaces it
> > with a 99 line Makefile.am.  A large win, I think.
> 
> That change came out very nicely indeed. I'm somewhat inclined to
> kill this gettext awfulness from all the things I maintain in favour
> of this approach.

Actually I think I missed out the bits so that 'make install' works.
That should only be a few more lines.

The main issue is that this would only work with GNU gettext tools,
not with gettext tools from other operating systems (ie. BSD).  In
this patch I worked around that by checking that the tools are the GNU
tools and disabling NLS if not, but a better patch would work with all
gettext variants.  It's not too much extra work.

Rich.

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