Re: Capability mismatch between gettext-lib and gettext-tools

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:31:49PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Thu, 02 May 2013 21:11:02 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:35:38PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> >>On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:16:37 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> >><joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:13:52PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> >>>>On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:59:56 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> >>>><joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:57:01PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> >>>>>>Proposed patch.
> >>>>>>You can use current behavior with _TOOLS_USE_PKGSRC.msgfmt=no.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>You have inverted at least the comment about when using msgfmt from
> >>>>>pkgsrc vs builtin gettext.
> >>>>
> >>>>Not inverted, update condition flexibility.
> >>>
> >>>New:
> >>>+# If we're using the builtin gettext implementation, then we should
> >>>+# definitely be using the pkgsrc version of msgfmt (gettext-tools).
> >>>
> >>>Old:
> >>>-# If we're not using the builtin gettext implementation, then we should
> >>>-# definitely be using the pkgsrc version of msgfmt (gettext-tools).
> >>
> >>Here are a simple patch for you.
> >>Just bump required version of gettext-lib and gettext-tools.
> >
> >So, do we really want to force every NetBSD user to install
> >gettext-tools? I don't like that...
> 
> So I created complex patch, but you don't like it,
> then I re-created simple patch for you.

Sorry, if I wasn't unclear. I was aked about a specific case in your
patch to understand if the change is matching the intention. It wasn't
about the complexity of the patch.

> For binary package users, it is not required to install gettext-tools.

They would still need the gettext libraries.

> To just avoid to install gettext-tools, introduce nls option
> and allow to disable NLS support.
> Do you really know what is happened after bunch of msgctxt are stripped?
> It is nearly NLS is disabled.

I don't know how well/bad it behaves. That's par of the reason for
understand exactly what is on the table.

Joerg