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Re: gettext-0.14.2: suggestions to ease gettextization + a few bugs
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: gettext-0.14.2: suggestions to ease gettextization + a few bugs |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:42:54 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Many thanks for the 19 constructive suggestions.
Yes, and I'd like to thank you both, for both the suggestion and the
response. I wish all bug-report threads had this high level of quality!
>> Personally I prefer one global ChangeLog per package so likewise I
>> wish gettextize would not create m4/ChangeLog if none already exist.
>
> The location of the ChangeLog files depends on the size of the package and
> the taste of the maintainer. This is one of the things gettextize cannot
> guess.
True, but GNU Emacs's find-change-log function uses the heuristic of
finding ./ChangeLog, ../ChangeLog, ../../ChangeLog, etc., and using
the first file that exists, or ./ChangeLog if none of thm exist; and
this algorithm (though not infallible) works well in practice, in my
experience. I too have been bothered by gettextize's creation of
m4/ChangeLog. It's a small thing, but small things add up. If
gettextize would use a heuristic consistent with Emacs's, I think this
would cure more trouble than it would cause.
outdated URL in config.guess, Paul Eggert, 2005/03/07
Re: gettext-0.14.2: suggestions to ease gettextization + a few bugs,
Paul Eggert <=
Re: gettext-0.14.2: suggestions to ease gettextization + a few bugs, Karl Berry, 2005/03/08