[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-i18n] Removing .mo files from cvs

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 14:24, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:17:26PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > I'm strongly considering removing .mo files from cvs and the tar.gz
> > file, possibly for Mailman 2.1.2.
> 
> From CVS, it's a Good Thing. I'm not sure about tar.gz's.
> 
> > - The files can easily be created at build time, even if gettext doesn't
> > exist.  We have a pure-Python version of msgfmt
> 
> Is this msgfmt.py distributed in the tarball?

It would be.  It comes verbatim from Python's Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py.

> If yes, I guess it's ok.
> If no, I'd leave them in. If they are removed, they should probably be
> built by the normal "make all" rule without needing external tools
> (automake-made tarballs are like this).

They would definitely be built with "make all".

Thanks for the feedback.
-Barry