Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>  Is there any reason?
>>>
>> I don't know. If I had to guess, it probably wasn't seen as worth
>> maintaining. After all none of the other features of GLib have random
>> --disable-feature options. Searching in bugzilla might find related
>> bug discussion.
> 
> And also because glib provides i18n for applications and libraries above
> it, and convenience functions for UTF-8, etc. that wouldn't be available
> on Unix systems without NLS support.

Disabling NLS support might be quite useful for people on embedded 
systems and/or people who are using glib for only a part of their 
application and use a different translation framework.

        -brian

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