Hi, I'm the guy responsible of having made GStreamer use autopoint in the first place. (Note, I'm not sure why you guys need to regenerate build files again, as it stands there are enough redhat- or semi-redhat-developers that have good connections to get GStreamer fixes pushed into cvs easily). > I looked at autopoint, and it should be reasonably easy to get rid of its > use of CVS by doing a checkout from archive.tar.gz at package build time > rather than runtime. Is autopoint even used at all? It's not, and the reason it's not is because hardly anyone knows it exists. But, it is far better than doing gettextize --copy --force which long was the only option. gettextize overwrites stuff, messes with files that should only be messed with by maintainers, and not programs, copies a bunch of m4's every time, and so on. It's the bruteforce approach, advocated to be run only once for a cvs project, with the results being copied to cvs. Sadly it doesn't really work well when developers, as is common, have different versions of autotools and friends. Autopoint is a lot more elegant, integrating a lot better with autotools. When I have some free time I'll work on having the bastard son glib-gettextize also do it, or drop everything it's doing and make sure it just uses gettext stuff. Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> I feel like I'm at something you always say you need more time Well I'll stay right here and I'll wait for good until I find a love worth mine <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/
