[LSC] Internationalisation (I18N) of the part library

[Travis Cobbs]

Sorry if you see this twice.  There was a problem with spam-detection, and
some of my messages got deleted.  I think this was one of them.


On 10/4/06, William Howard <william at howard-family.fsworld.co.uk> wrote:
>
> There are also some past messages in the archive starting here
> http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/lsc/2005-April/000339.html
>


In reference to the above, I think using GNU gettext format for the
translations might be a really bad idea.  First of all, most ldraw tools
don't run in *nix, so just using it might be a pain.  Secondly, gettext is
GPL, and not LGPL, which means it can only be used by GPL-licensed tools.

I haven't looked at the format of .pot and .po files, so it could be that
they're easy for anyone to parse on their own.  If this is the case, then we
can consider using the format anyway.  But it seems odd to use a file format
designed to be used by a library that most ldraw software won't be using.

Note: my program, LDView, is already licensed under GPL.  (The QT version
has to be, since it uses QT GPL.)  But I know that there are a bunch of
ldraw tools that aren't GPL (MLCad is probably at the top of the list).

--Travis
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