Re: GNU Diffutils 2.8 is available

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Albert Chin <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:27:59 -0600
> 
> Any reason the intl/ directory wasn't included as part of the tarball?

My impression in fielding bug reports from users was that intl/ was
more trouble than it was worth.

People who want localized messages tend to have their own
properly-built intl library, which GNU Diffutils 2.8 uses by default.

People who don't want localized messages, or who don't particularly
care one way or the other, tend to have problems building intl/.
These problems discouraged some users from building GNU Diffutils test
versions 2.7.3 through 2.7.7, which had intl/.

Omitting intl/ is a new feature of gettext, introduced in gettext
0.11.  I've had good experience with it so far, and am inclined to use
this feature in the other packages I help maintain.