From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To:	<djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc:	<sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>, <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject:	Re: gettext port (DXE prototype)
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:01:09 +0200
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> Can you say if/why the ready-made dxe implementations in v2tk/ are not
> satisfactory for this purpose?  (I ask because I have been experimenting
> with v2tk/dxe2_011.zip, but perhaps it has limitations I am not aware of.)

I think Charles' point was to get this done using just core components
(albeit slightly tweaked); if you use dxe2, you require all programs using
NLS to link in dxe2 as well.
Heck - I could easily use my own version of DLX to do this; since it
compresses its DLXs, that would imply even larger savings.  But it would
require linking in my DLX library and impose another dependency on
maintainers.
The best solution would be to get some dlopen-compatible library as part
of the DJGPP core (perhaps even gcc/ld -shared support).  But that would
definitely not be trivial to implement.

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