Re: Internationalisation

Tim Marston <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:25:35 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gengetopt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Lorenzo,

On 07/10/13 09:30, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> I had imagined that the API breakage that I was proposing might
>> constitute a minor (or perhaps even major) version number increment.
>> But do you feel that compatibility is more important than that?
> 
> Why don't we have a command line argument to enable
> internationalization?  At that point the user knows that he needs to
> change something...

That is a very good idea.

When internationalisation is enabled, software written with gengetopt
would also need to have gengetopt's localisation files available.  I
imagine that these will simply become a package dependency in most
distros.  But it would be nice to be able to choose not to have this
dependency with a command-line switch.

OK, I'll look in to making those changes.

Kind regards,

-- 
Tim Marston
ed.am