From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ping] Re: include po-mode.el ?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:44:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803130644.m2D6i23h012200@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1w6hj9u0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:41 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> >> No opinion about this?
>
> > This is tremendously useful both for translators and programmers who
> > internationalize their programs. I use it every day.
>
> > However you should talk with Bruno Haible about it, as it has been
> > distributed with GNU gettext since about forever.
>
> IIRC when po.el was installed, it was decided to install po.el and to
> leave po-mode.el out because po-mode.el can only be used if you have
> gettext installed anyway.
For GNU/Linux the packaging system takes care of installing po-mode.el
the right way, so that emacs uses it. On other systems is not
necessarily true if whoever installs it does not take special care.
IMHO we should better include it and be done with it...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 2:21 include po-mode.el ? Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-11 3:32 ` [ping] " Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-11 7:13 ` Jan Djärv
2008-03-11 8:11 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-03-11 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13 6:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
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