From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ping] Re: include po-mode.el ? Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:44:02 -0700 Message-ID: <200803130644.m2D6i23h012200@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200802250221.m1P2LTjd011606@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803110332.m2B3WXhM006584@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87bq5l4r4y.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205390694 32155 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 06:44:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 07:45:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZhBn-0004a3-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:45:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZhBE-0005GC-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZhB9-0005Fj-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZhB9-0005FT-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZhB9-0005FQ-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZhB8-0005gB-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:44:39 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205995444.59947@gha82hsfV2E4P7vK99iYAA Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m2D6i23h012200; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:44:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:41 -0400") Original-Lines: 19 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92376 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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...