At 08:42 PM 9/24/2001 +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
>On 09/24/01 Michael Maraist wrote:
> > > GNU does offer the gettext tools library for just such a purpose. I don't
> > > know how it will translate to the various platforms however, and it
> likely
> > > is a major overkill for what we are trying to do.
> > > http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC2 - Purpose
> > > It might make sense to implement something like this now, rather than
> create
> > > our own system and find out it is insufficient down the road.
> > > Just a thought,
> > > Grant M.
> >
> > But wouldn't that make parrot GPL'd?
>
>IIRC, the latest release is LGPL and GLib 2.0 will probably contain a
>(again LGPL) gettext implementation to be used on systems that don't
>provide their own.
LGPL's much better, though we still have the issue of portability and
self-containedness. We'd probably end up having to ship gettext with perl,
which has its own set of problems.
Dan
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