[ds6-devel] Re: stupid gettext

[Chris Leishman]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 01:39 AM, Simone Piunno wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:29:56AM +0200, Chris Leishman wrote:
>
>> I'm still kind curious what makes gettext so much different from any 
>> other
>> linked in library (except for the fact that it's included in glibc -
>> and thats a good reason for thinking GNU developers are crazy).
>
> Probably what makes gettext special is that it's a stricly GPL'ed
> library, while almost all the others (and notably all the rest of
> glibc) is LGPL.

Just downloaded gettext 0.11.5, the manual is actually much better and 
I think they have some better tools for managing the use.  
Unfortunately it doesn't build on my system (darwin), so until I track 
that down I ask nicely if we can stick to 0.10.40.

Regards,
Chris