[xhe] gettext-tiny 0.2.0 released, intl is now completely usable

[xhe] gettext-tiny 0.2.0 released, intl is now completely usable

[He X]

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Hi, everybody!

I'm glad to announce release 0.2.0 of gettext-tiny.

This release is a milestone in the gettext-tiny development, as it
adds a full-fledged msgfmt tool, which is finally capable to produce
real translations, supporting all necessary (in real-world use)
features of the GNU implementation, such as plural forms, fuzzy marks.

What is especially important for musl users is that it supports SYSDEP
replacements.

The latter is a relatively recent addition to GNU gettext to deal with
system-dependent format strings[0]. It is problematic in that GNU does
the expansion at run-time, thereby requiring read/write memory for
something that should be (and was in the past) entirely read-only and
could be shared among processes, and so defeating the entire purpose
of the precompiled translations.

This is why musl's libintl implementation opts out of this feature and
requires the msgfmt tool to expand the SYSDEP strings into all
possible variations, so there's no need for dynamic memory allocation
to support it.

gettext-tiny now has the first implementation of msgfmt which is
compatible to musl's requirement, this means that for the first time
it will be possible for musl users to enjoy their software with
working translations, without the need to use an external libintl
implementation for that.

Note that msgmerge and xgettext are still stubs, but they are
sufficient to build about 1000 packages from sabotage linux[1] without
any issues, as well as all packages
in no-name linux[2].

I personally was using it daily, fixing bugs and coding new
functionality for months, and believe it is ready for prime-time now.

fetch your source tarball at
:http://ftp.barfooze.de/pub/sabotage/tarballs/gettext-tiny-0.2.0.tar.xz

$ sha512sum gettext-tiny-0.2.0.tar.xz
4d8d9d02042adf023bfd2502fa7598f9b16ef2e03dd3d39fd3ba36f1be1d884d1b891600d9263e11948e3979909ea810a1d1b8cefc7e522feda8b422a1107a2e
 gettext-tiny-0.2.0.tar.xz

git repo @ https://github.com/sabotage-linux/gettext-tiny


Note that during the last months I also found some bugs in musl's
libintl, and they have been fixed in upstream. So, with new
gettext-tiny and those patches, I now have a system with full
translation support. I can assure you that both gettext-tiny and
musl's gettext are completely usable. Enjoy your translations from
now!

These are the patches for musl, if you can't wait for
1.1.17:https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=01e6bbece2bdcac243cdb8dff6916f2bb80a19e1https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=dbbb3734d8c0176feabd6c46e2e85bbc3b8a60afhttps://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=16319a5df9d50cfc642ffc8db76bc36562d4b3ddhttps://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=e4fc9ad780e36c84e1ed6b0fc01b3c53ae65ff9dhttps://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=e6917eced2cc841fe3dfd9c04deec9202f9e34f3https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=d6601f0af0452b218d247cb47513fc9cd6bbf2e2


Best regards,
xhe


References:
[0] - http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/04/16/1
[1] - https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage
[2] - https://github.com/xhebox/noname-linux

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Re: [xhe] gettext-tiny 0.2.0 released, intl is now completely usable

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:49:15PM +0800, He X wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
> 
> I'm glad to announce release 0.2.0 of gettext-tiny.

Great to hear! Thanks for the update/good news.

Rich

Re: [xhe] gettext-tiny 0.2.0 released, intl is now completely usable

[A. Wilcox]

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On 02/08/17 10:49, He X wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
> 
> I'm glad to announce release 0.2.0 of gettext-tiny.
> 
> gettext-tiny now has the first implementation of msgfmt which is 
> compatible to musl's requirement, this means that for the first 
> time it will be possible for musl users to enjoy their software 
> with working translations, without the need to use an external 
> libintl implementation for that.
> 
> I personally was using it daily, fixing bugs and coding new 
> functionality for months, and believe it is ready for prime-time 
> now.


This is fantastic news for us over at Adélie, where we really want to
be able to provide non-English interfaces for our users.  Thank you so
much for your work and I look forward to integrating it very soon.

As a question, does gettext-tiny have an official Web site, mailing
list, bug tracker, or something of that ilk in case there is an issue?
 It would also be nice to put a URL in the package description for
people who want to learn more if it is possible as well.  Let me know.

Best,
- --arw


> 
> 
> Best regards, xhe
> 
> 
> References: [0] - http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/04/16/1 
> [1] - https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage [2] -
> https://github.com/xhebox/noname-linux
> 


- -- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
http://adelielinux.org
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Re: [xhe] gettext-tiny 0.2.0 released, intl is now completely usable

[He X]

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> As a question, does gettext-tiny have an official Web site, mailing
> list, bug tracker, or something of that ilk in case there is an issue?
 > It would also be nice to put a URL in the package description for
> people who want to learn more if it is possible as well.  Let me know.

No, it did not, if you want to report a bug, just open an issue on github.
Or join #sabotage, #nonamelinux.

And, for description, it's all on github, simply add the repo URL:
https://github.com/sabotage-linux/gettext-tiny

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