-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/15/10 10:58 AM, Max Horn wrote: > > 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?
The package builds. > > 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 - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkueTRkACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/BKgCfYw0JKasGGmlDqWqXyKfB9CEs WcIAnRp3VmBmCej4uf7XoMtqKTiD1u5C =zKu1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
