Re: Plurals and ngettext

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 04:30:50PM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
>
> > Noone has given any objections yet -- rather the opposite, as people
> > have confirmed that this is supported by the OpenI18N standard and
> > compliant platforms. That still leaves the issue of older systems, but
> > then people that are worried about portability problems should come
> > forward. That's basically the reason I asked this on desktop-devel to
> > begin with, to get possible objections on the portability issue. So far
> > there has been none.
>
>
> Openi18n is a brand new standard, it doesn't yet have any real-world
> portability meaning.  Portability isn't a "any objections?" topic,
> it's just a given that stuff must be portable. Right now you can AFAIK
> build GLib with system gettext instead of GNU gettext. If you can only
> do that on Solaris then Kenneth says we're fine since Solaris has
> ngettext, at least recent Solaris. But I don't *know* that we
> currently rely on GNU gettext on all other platforms. Do you know that
> for sure?  If not, we should ask Owen or someone else who probably
> knows. If we're increasing the set of people who must use GNU gettext
> we need to be sure we understand the impact of that.

The picture differs - you can build gtk+ on systems that don't have GNU 
gettext, or a system gettext that has been extended to cover the same API 
but you won't get far when building gnome. It would be interesting to know 
how many people actually do use gtk+ without gnu or solaris gettext.

> Havoc

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