[Esa-l] Question: is requiring GNU gettext okay?

[John D. Hardin]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Karl Dunn wrote:

> If you decide to have v2 depend on gettext, please post as early a
> warning as possible, and point to which tarball you used. Maybe
> you could provide a Makefile and some settings to make it
> convenient to leave out features some installations can't support
> easily.  It would save us time to point to anything else you elect
> to depend on, too.

Given this and Brett's objection on philosophical grounds :) I'm also
looking at the pure-Perl implementation of the gettext functionality.

Can anybody suggest another internationalization alternative for Perl?

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