Re: Some work I am doing at the moment

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:02:48PM +0100, Richard Hult wrote:
> mån 2003-02-24 klockan 01.49 skrev Malcolm Tredinnick:
[...]
> > seem to work fairly well, although a bit of tidying up is necessary. I
> > wanted these for my own purposes, then I discovered they were on the
> > roadmap for 0.10 (bug #317). How I submit these depends on the next two
> > points, though...
> 
> Mikael and I just started going through the libmrproject API to clean it
> up and make it consistent, so any doc/binding work other than
> infrastructure should ideally not be done before that, to avoid
> duplication of work.  

OK, I'll hold off sending the Python binding patches until you give the
word. It's pretty easy to keep them up to date in my local copy and
since I'm using them at the moment for a couple of things, I might even
manage to keep them working.

I'll also only commit the docs build stuff and hold off on the other
stuff.

> We discussed the intltool and gettext issues a bit and came to the
> conclusion that requiring automake 1.6+ is not a problem, likewise for
> using gettext 0.11.4 (it will only be required when building from CVS,
> right?).

Yes, only required for building from CVS (that still affects something
like 1000 people GNOME-wide). I thought this was going to be really
controversial; nice to know we are thinking on the same lines. :-)

> > If there is a concern that the gettext maintainers will, at some point
> > in the future, do more silly things such as the huge gettextize changes
> > in the recent past, we can then switch to a glib-gettexize style script.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> We'd prefer to just do the proposed changes for libmrproject for now,
> and wait with mrproject until intltool has been fixed and gotten a bit
> of testing.

OK. For the record, the intltool bug I need fixed is

	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106898

When I build with this and set, say, LANG=sv_SE, everything correctly
appears to be gibberish for me. But I agree that having it tested a bit
more widely might be worthwhile.

> We really appreciate this, feel free to commit the auto* stuff and the
> doc parts to libmrproject HEAD.

Thanks. I'll do it today sometime.

> Thanks again, you rock! :)

Why do people keep calling me a rock? :-)

Cheers,
Malcolm

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