Re: question re: intl/ dir

[Bruno Haible]

Thomas Vander Stichele writes:

> I was looking for the names of the current gettext maintainers

What for? The right email address is given in gettext's README file.

> If I understand the situation correctly, the intl/ dir contains all of the 
> stuff needed to get i18n working on systems that don't have libintl 
> installed.

Yes.

> Now, since all of Gnome depends on Glib, and Glib already enforces libintl 
> to be installed, it is unnecessary for any Gnome (or even GLib-using) 
> project to have the intl/ dir generated.

Agreed.

> Would a patch be accepted that would implement a --nointl option for 
> gettextize ?

No, it is not needed. Since version 0.11, gettextize by default
doesn't create the intl/ directory any more.

> when is a new release of gettext planned ?

No GNU project tells release dates in advance.

Bruno