On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 06:21:22PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Distributed-Development.html
However, if it I did something wrong, then let's talk about what needs
to be changed.
it's not wrong per se. it's more of a philosophy thing, whether you want
to do pure source control, or want to veer toward configuration
management. at the extreme end, you would be committing binaries for
every supported platform for each release. i'm a source control purist,
and would therefore delete (and gitignore) every file that is somehow
generated by/from something else in the repo.
if there actually are any version dependencies between gettext and the
surrounding autoconf infra, one can code a constraint into configure.ac.
that would be a problem for people building from git with mismatched
versions who somehow still want to build translations. i wouldn't feel
constrained by this hypothetical user group.
