Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:20:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

> I will upload today or tomorrow a port of gettext-0.10.39

Thanks!

> 1) Binaries compiled with NLS are large. Should the binary package
>    contain binaries compiled _without_ NLS too? This means two binaries
>    for every program. Example:
>      xgettext.exe (compiled out-of-the-box with NLS) and
>      nnxgettext.exe (no-NLS xgettext compiled _without_ NLS)
>    This would be intended for people who need the binaries but are not interested
>    in NLS for some particular reason. I have no preferences at all.

I'm not sure; it would seem that people who use gettext would have NLS 
files installed anyway.

> 2) Packages like gettext and libiconv start installing html formated
>    man pages and info docs into a new directory. Example:
>      gettext.html, gettext.pdf, gettext.dvi, gettext.ps go into $(prefix)/doc/gettext
>    This is incompatible with the way DJGPP docs packages install their files.
>    They install into $(prefix)/gnudocs/gettext.

The "gnudocs" part was never discussed nor accepted as a standard, it 
was (IIRC) only used in the *d.zip archives.

If the GNU project uses $prefix/doc as a standard place, I think we 
should use %DJDIR%/doc as well.