On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:54 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > 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.
And it means that a lot of convenience functions for UTF-8 handling wouldn't work. Gettext support is in the libc for Linux, what's the point in disabling it? _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list