[Freeciv-Dev] Re: win32 server

[Dirk Stoecker <stoecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 Jan 2001, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:

> >> Common is not the right directory anyway. Either leaving it in
> >> amiga with some additional ifdefs or moving it to a new drawer
> >> "misc". I would not like to have such rudimentary replacements in
> >> the main directories.
> 
> I don't know.  You seem to regard your mini-gettext as an
> embarrassment that should be hidden in a special directory lest anyone
> catch sight of it.  I don't quite agree; I think that if it works for
> the Amiga, it ought to work for Windows as well.

The directories common, ai, server and client should be purely for freeciv
work. I wouldn't like to see anything else there. And mini-gettext is
something of "anything else".

Creating a misc directory maybe right choice. We can put the vsnprintf.c
there as well, if some other systems want to use it.

> Basically, we have the choice between maintaining a set of patches to
> the original gettext, patches that will have to be changed every time
> gettext changes.  Or we can use your mini-fork, which we will have to
> update/extend every time the interfact changes.  I know which one I
> think is simpler.

An update is necessary only if freeciv changes its behaviour, as the
mini-clone is not compatible to the normal gettext. It only does as if.

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