Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > How about if we mark the gettext module as obsolescent? We can then > work to fix those other two modules to not rely on the gettext module > (they can still use gettext, just via gettext's mechanisms rather than > via gnulib). > > We'd keep the gettext-h module.
It sounds like a good idea. I've done that with the attached patch. Thanks, -- Daiki Ueno
>From 4cfc2d2d0b24e91299682baf0bb437088d185326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daiki Ueno <u...@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:07:33 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] gettext: mark as obsolete Suggested by Paul Eggert in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00101.html * modules/gettext (Status): Mark as obsolete. (Notice): Suggest to use 'gettext-h' instead. * modules/gettext-h (Description): Suggest GNU gettext, instead of the 'gettext' module. --- ChangeLog | 10 ++++++++++ modules/gettext | 7 ++++++- modules/gettext-h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1d27b8a..4dce1ff 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2016-01-25 Daiki Ueno <u...@gnu.org> + + gettext: mark as obsolete + Suggested by Paul Eggert in: + https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00101.html + * modules/gettext (Status): Mark as obsolete. + (Notice): Suggest to use 'gettext-h' instead. + * modules/gettext-h (Description): Suggest GNU gettext, instead of + the 'gettext' module. + 2016-01-24 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> gnulib-tool: don't give up on ln -s so easily diff --git a/modules/gettext b/modules/gettext index a9ceed7..8c94e2d 100644 --- a/modules/gettext +++ b/modules/gettext @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ Description: Translate messages to user's native language. +Status: +obsolete + Notice: -You must add an invocation of AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) to configure.ac. +This module is obsolete. Use the module 'gettext-h' instead to make +your program capable of internationalization, when GNU gettext is also +used. Files: m4/codeset.m4 diff --git a/modules/gettext-h b/modules/gettext-h index 2d6c2cd..72bdcb2 100644 --- a/modules/gettext-h +++ b/modules/gettext-h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Description: -Translate messages to user's native language if the gettext module is also used. +Translate messages to user's native language if GNU gettext is also used. Files: lib/gettext.h -- 2.5.0
