Re: TODO

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Daniel Reed wrote:
> On 2004-11-09T18:19-0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> ) Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> ) > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:24:25PM CET:
> ) >>3.5.  While we are there, maybe internationalise libltdl?
> ) > Please don't.  If you do, make it possible to have zero(!) overhead for
> ) > ltdl users if they choose not to make use of the translation capability.
> ) Do you mean zero runtime overhead?  That's easy, and fairly standard already:
> )
> )   #ifndef _
> )   #  ifdef ENABLE_NLS
> )   #    include <libintl.h>
> )   #    define _(Text)  gettext ((Text))
> )   #  else
> )   #    define _(Text) (Text)
> )   #  endif
> )   #endif
> )
> ) There are a few other tweaks that need to be done (see CVS M4), but for
> ) brevity I'll spare you the details :-)
> )
> ) Obviously message catalogues and the like will make the distribution bigger
> ) though.
>
> As this trick takes effect at compile time, would this require that an
> embedded libltdl grow in size even if the functionality is never used?

This is only part of the magic, but is the only change in the source code.

> If so, I think the point is to allow packagers who embed libltdl in other
> packages to choose a prenoninternationalized version (so the noni18n occurs
> at repackaging time rather than compile time).

It wouldn't be at all difficult to have 'libtoolize --ltdl 
--disable-nls' install a non-internationalised libltdl minus message 
catalogues into a parent package.  But yes, we would have to take care 
to do it carefully.  An improved post-2.0 testsuite should help there :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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