HEADS UP: gettext update going in [ALL CLEAR]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 13:01, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 05:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> I am about to update the gettext port to 0.12.1.  This will involve
> >> bumping the libintl.so version of 175 ports.  Please hold off on commits
> >> until you see the "all-clear" email from me.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Gettext 0.12.1 has been committed.  It is _recommended_ people install
> > sysutils/portupgrade then do:
> 
> What's wrong with old gettext? Why we need upgrade it? Something serious?

It's not necessarily a serious upgrade, but the new gettext offers new
language functionality, new translation functionality, and is starting
to be used by developers when building applications.  I have noticed one
instance where it converted a .po file that 0.11.5 would not.  Plus,
some obligatory bungs (namely some core dumps) have been fixed.

Joe

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