Am 15.03.2010 um 15:42 schrieb Alexander Hansen: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/15/10 10:39 AM, Max Horn wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> can somebody advise me on libgettext3 vs. libgettext8 -- in particular, for >> new packages (and when revising existing packages of mines), should I stick >> with libgettext3, or are we going to gradually migrate to libgettext8 ? Is >> there any kind of policy on this? I searched for this but could find >> nothing, so any pointers would be appreciated. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Max > > There's nothing formal that I know about. I think the current practice > is now to update to libgettext8, when appropriate, and to have new > packages use it (again, when appropriate), so that we can gradually > deprecate gettext3.
And what does "when appropriate" mean? If we really want to deprecate gettext3 at some point, I think we definitely should turn this into an official thing, shouldn't we? I.e. put a few sentences like the above on our Wiki. I.e. simply recording that statement that ideally all packages should be converted to gettext8 -- "where appropriate" (whatever that means :-). Otherwise, I don't think it'll happen in the next couple years. For example, I only noticed the existence of libgettex8 by chance. So if we don't announce it to our package devs, they hardly will attempt to make the transition, right? :-) Bye, Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
