Re: GNOME 2 porting document released

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 12:41, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El mié, 28-11-2001 a las 18:32, jacob berkman escribió:
> > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 20:37, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > > After a much longer wait than was probably reasonable, a preliminary
> > > version of the GNOME 2 porting document has now been released. This
> > > document should help developers who have existing GNOME 1 applications
> > > and wish to move them over to the GNOME 2 platform.
> > 
> > some notes:
> > 
> >     you might want to mention this url with the snapshots i do:
> >     http://primates.ximian.com/~jacob/gnome-2-snapshots/
> >     
> >     when using AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT, you need to set the GETTEXT_PACKAGE
> >     variable to something.  either the same thing as PACKAGE, or if it
> >     is parallel installable with a 1.x version, PACKAGE-2.0.  when using
> >     PACKAGE with gettext calls in your C files, you should replace them
> >     with GETTEXT_PACKAGE.
> 
> 
> Why don't use PACKAGE-2? This way, when we release GNOME 2.2 we could
> use also this .mo file name.

it doesn't really matter either way, however if the package needs to be
parallel installable for 2.2, then you need to change it again.

jacob
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