Re: [xine-devel] Updating gettext

[Alien <ali...@us...>]

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Op dinsdag 2 november 2004 04:00, schreef Bill Fink:
> I think the general rule is if the package is generally available in
> most all distros, then it's OK to just have a dependency for it.  If
> the package has to be downloaded separately from a third party site
> or if it's been heavily tweaked/optimized for use by xine, then it's
> generally included with xine itself to make life easier for most
> casual users.  I think gettext would fall under the first case so
> it should probably be OK to use the external package (and hope the
> newer version wouldn't introduce/expose too many new bugs).
>
> 						-Bill

ok, i get it...

but with heavily tweaked/optimized stuff: why don't you give patches to the=
=20
devel of those packages so they can optimize their stuff? and just have a=20
dependency?

Alien

(it's just a question, don't take this personally)

> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Alien wrote:
> > i find it really odd that alot of stuff is included in your project, mo=
st
> > of which is available in seperate packages...
> >
> > Op maandag 1 november 2004 17:59, schreef Michael Roitzsch:
> > > Hi team,
> > >
> > > > I've been working on porting xine-lib to Mac OS X, and one problem
> > > > which I haven't managed to solve yet is that the intl/ directory in
> > > > the xine-lib CVS tree simply doesn't compile properly on the Mac.  I
> > > > suspect this is because xine uses an intl distribution from a very
> > > > old gettext tarball, so would it be possible to upgrade to a newer
> > > > version of gettext at all?  I'd commit a new version myself, but I
> > > > have no experience with gettext, so I don't know how to import a new
> > > > intl/ tree, and I wasn't sure if there would be any compatibility
> > > > problems in doing so.
> > >
> > > This old intl directory has bothered me too and I wonder what the
> > > common solution is. Do all projects that use gettext include a copy of
> > > it? Couldn't we just require gettext being installed in a recent
> > > version?
>
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