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Bug#508398: ITP: mini18n -- minimal translation library



Quoting Evgeni Golov (sargentd@die-welt.net):
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:47:37 +0100 Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > Is there any reason for not using gettext ? If this is a C library, I
> > suppose that the 'yabause' software is also written in C, which, IIRC,
> > gettext supports..:-)
> > 
> > /me is having a strong "reinventing the wheel" feeling, here.
> 
> Yupp, this is an reinvented wheel. But upstream argued that this wheel
> can drive on non-GNU roads ;) -- Yabause runs natively on Windows, Sega
> Dreamcast and Nintendo Wii and porting GNU gettext over there is
> something upstream did not want to do.


At least I hope (I highly suspect I'm wrong) that upstream is
intending to keep this compatible with PO files. In short, that it's
using PO files for the translatable material.


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