Re: 7.2 items

* Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> [010514 13:39] wrote:
> Patrick Welche writes:
> 
> > > I have no objection to the gettext API, but I was and still am concerned
> > > about depending on GNU gettext's code, because of license conflicts.
> > > There is a BSD-license gettext clone project, but it doesn't look to be
> > > very far along.
> >
> > What's missing with it?
> 
> * portability
> 
> At first glance, uses strlcat and strlcpy.  Didn't look further.
> 
> * dedication to portability
> 
> Only plans to support *BSD.
> 
> * source code availability
> 
> Didn't find anything outside NetBSD CVS and the CVS rep where they got it
> from.
> 
> * documentation
> 
> Related to above.
> 
> * English support forum
> 
> Only Japanese mailing list available.
> 
> 
> If you can address these things we might have a winner, otherwise we might
> have to fork it.

Please don't fork it.  If you base off the FreeBSD gettext I will
merge your changes into ours as long as they follow the style of
the existing code.

I'd really like to see a "bsd userland" out there not tied to a
particular version of UNIX so this means a lot to me.

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