April 21, 2003
6:11 p.m.
I'm strongly considering removing .mo files from cvs and the tar.gz file, possibly for Mailman 2.1.2.
The files can easily be created at build time, even if gettext doesn't exist. We have a pure-Python version of msgfmt
It cuts out about 4MB uncompressed from the tar file
Having .mos makes creating patches more difficult.
It should greatly speed up cvs update.
I'd like to know if anybody has objections to this. It would actually make the translation teams job easier since you won't have to worry about building or checking in the .mo files.
I have this working in an unchecked in snapshot. Before I commit it I wanted to see if anybody has major objections or can see any flaws.
-Barry