Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.5pre.2c.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Henry Nelson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:43:38AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:26:56PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:40:44PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > > Does anyone use the bundled intl library?
> > > >
> > > > Never have.  Presently using "gettext-0.12.1" and "libiconv-1.9.1" on
> > > > both Solaris2.6/2.8 and NetBSD1.4.3/1.5.1/1.6.
> > >
> > > The intl in lynx won't handle (I've read) some of the newer .po files in 
> > > the
> > > distribution.  It's an eyesore as well
> >
> > # rm -rf intl   (and make "--without-included-gettext" the default   :)
>
> You mean using AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) ? Yes, why not ? All
> packages are moving to it. coreutils, lftp, and many others
> already do.

I hadn't noticed AM_GNU_GETTEXT, but a few years ago decided in dialog to
omit intl/.  Now that my attention is on this macro - no, I don't have any
use for it for much the same reasons that I decided to remove intl/ -- it
would force me to use a specific flavor of tools which restricts further
design choices I might make.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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