Fwd: GNU gettext 0.20.1 released

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Bruno,

Wow.  Thank you for this great summary!  Would that all projects 
published such clear (and custom) release notes…  <3

I see that gnu/packages/gettext.scm has a nice chronological list 
of copyright lines, which does make it appear as if I'm the 
current packager of gettext in Guix.  However, the Guix project 
doesn't have this notion of (package) maintainer: everyone 
packages, fixes, and updates what they can whenever they can. 
This might change in future but it works rather well now.

For that reason, I'm CC'ing the address@hidden list.  I 
encourage you to add it to your own for future releases.

I'm having some trouble with the actual upgrade but I'll save that 
for a reply.

Thanks again,

T G-R

[Original message:]

Available at
 https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.20.1.tar.xz

New in 0.20.1:

* Important bug fix:
 - Fixed a wrong shared library versioning of libintl.so.

New in 0.20:

* Libtextstyle:
 - This package installs a new library 'libtextstyle', together 
 with a new
   header file <textstyle.h>.  It is a library for styling text 
   output sent
   to a console or terminal emulator.
   Packagers: please see the suggested packaging hints in the 
   file PACKAGING.

* Support for reproducible builds:
 - msgfmt now eliminates the POT-Creation-Date header field from 
 .mo files.

* Improvements for translators:
 - update-po target in Makefile.in.in now uses msgmerge 
 --previous.

* Improvements for maintainers:
 - msgmerge now has an option --for-msgfmt, that produces a PO 
 file meant
   for use by msgfmt only.  This option saves processing time, in 
   particular
   by omitting fuzzy matching that is not useful in this 
   situation.
 - The .pot file in a 'po' directory is now erased by "make 
 maintainer-clean".
 - It is now possible to override xgettext options from the 
 po/Makefile.in.in
   through options in XGETTEXT_OPTIONS (declared in po/Makevars).
 - The --intl option of the gettextize program (deprecated since 
 2010) is
   no longer available. Instead of including the intl sources in 
   your package,
   we suggest making the libintl library an optional prerequisite 
   of your
   package. This will simplify the build system of your package.
 - Accordingly, the Autoconf macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR is 
 gone as well.

* Programming languages support:
 - C, C++:
   xgettext now supports strings in u8"..." syntax, as specified 
   in C11
   and C++11.
 - C, C++:
   xgettext now supports 'p'/'P' exponent markers in number 
   tokens, as
   specified in C99 and C++17.
 - C++:
   xgettext now supports underscores in number tokens.
 - C++:
   xgettext now supports single-quotes in number tokens, as 
   specified in
   C++14.
 - Shell:
   o The programs 'gettext', 'ngettext' now support a --context 
   argument.
   o gettext.sh contains new function eval_pgettext and 
   eval_npgettext
     for producing translations of messages with context.
 - Java:
   o xgettext now supports UTF-8 encoded .properties files (a new 
   feature
     of Java 9).
   o The build system and tools now support Java 9, 10, and 
   11. On the
     other hand, support for old versions of Java (Java 5 and 
     older,
     GCJ 4.2.x and older) has been dropped.
 - Perl:
   o Native support for context functions (pgettext, dpgettext, 
   dcpgettext,
     npgettext, dnpgettext, dcnpgettext).
   o better detection of question mark and slash as operators (as 
   opposed 
     to regular expression delimiters).
 - Scheme:
   xgettext now parses the syntax for specialized byte vectors 
   (#u8(...),
   #vu8(...), etc.) correctly.
 - Pascal:
   xgettext can now extract strings from .rsj files, produced by 
   the
   Free Pascal compiler version 3.0.0 or newer.
 - Vala:
   xgettext now parses escape sequences in strings more 
   accurately.
 - JavaScript:
   xgettext now parses template literals correctly.

* Runtime behaviour:
 - The interpretation of the language preferences on macOS has 
 been fixed.
 - Per-thread locales are now also supported on Solaris 11.4.
 - The replacements for the printf()/fprintf()/... functions that 
 are
   provided through <libintl.h> on native Windows and NetBSD are 
   now POSIX
   compliant.  There is no conflict any more between these 
   replacements
   and other possible replacements provided by gnulib or mingw.


According to [1], you seem to be packaging gettext for 
Guix/GuixSD.

I invite you to upgrade to version 0.20.1.

The packaging will need changes, regarding the new libtextstyle; I 
recommend
to package it as a separate binary package (see file PACKAGING).

When doing this upgrade, you can drop the following workarounds:
- test-lock now never hangs any more.
- expat is not longer used (already since 0.19.7).

Best regards,

          Bruno

[1] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guix.git;a=blob;f=gnu/packages/gettext.scm

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