Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe contreras gmail com> wrote:
> >  Is there any reason?
> >
> 
> I don't know. If I had to guess, it probably wasn't seen as worth
> maintaining. After all none of the other features of GLib have random
> --disable-feature options. Searching in bugzilla might find related
> bug discussion.

And also because glib provides i18n for applications and libraries above
it, and convenience functions for UTF-8, etc. that wouldn't be available
on Unix systems without NLS support.