Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Translation of tla

[Matthieu Moy]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

>     > From: Tez Kamihira <address@hidden>
>
>     > I got another problem. If we link gettext library, we'll have another
>     > outer dependency. tla will become fatter and fatter. Installation will
>     > be difficult more and more. Portability will be worser and worser.
>     > Is it permitable ?
>
> Would it be hard to make it an option?  If not, then let's do that and
> make the option disabled by default.  

Is gettext so much bloated ? 

Well almost  all pieces of software  on my computer  are translated in
several languages, and I believe most of them use gettext ... 

$ ls foo
foo: No such file or directory. 
$ setenv LANG fr_FR
$ ls foo
foo: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type. 

So, "ls"  can do it  (I'm pretty sure  this uses gettext). Is  "ls" so
"fat" ? Same for cat, sed, rm, touch, ...

I  don't think  this is  a problem  to have  dependancies  on gettext.
Having an option to disable it is  good, but I don't see any reason to
disable it by default.

-- 
Matthieu