[Freeciv-Dev] Re: win32 server

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, stoecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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".

Well, it seems to me that they contain lots of random dandruff and
infrastructure stuff already.  It's all the same to me, really.

> 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.

Precisely.  My point is that it is easier to track the interface than
to track the inner workings of GNU gettext.

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