HEADS UP: New gettext update

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (01.23.2004 @ 1514 PST): Jeremy Messenger said, in 1.3K: <<
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:12:50 -0500, Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> >>>(01.23.2004 @ 1449 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 1.1K: <<
> >>I'm sure that by now, people have seen that the main gettext port was
> >>updated to 0.13, and 0.12.1 was moved to gettext-old.  This is going to
> >>cause some headaches for GNOME users (well, anyone really).  What you
> >>need to do is first remove gettext, then install gettext-old.  At that
> >>point, you should be okay.
> >>
> >>What would be nice is for someone with a fast machine to modify the
> >>necessary GNOME bits to use the new gettext, and do a full GNOME build.
> >>If that works, we can migrate GNOME over to the new gettext (and then
> >>we'll have to remove gettext-old, and install gettext...).  Yes, this
> >>sucks.
> >>>end of "HEADS UP: New gettext update" from Joe Marcus Clarke <<
> >
> >Should it be backed out until it can be better thought out and tested?
> 
> Perhaps, do the opposite by gettext-new for 0.13 and keep gettext (0.12.x) 
> until the gettext-new is well tested?
>> end of "Re: HEADS UP: New gettext update" from Jeremy Messenger <<

I like this idea a lot.

# Adam


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