[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] pkg-autotools: introduce infra to gettextize packages (branch yem/gettextize)
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Apr 10 21:19:19 UTC 2014
Dear Yann E. MORIN,
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:20:00 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> This small series introduces the gettextize of a package as an optional
> sequence in the autotools package infra.
>
> WARNING! Completely untested, only an RFC!
>
> Currently, wget is the sole user, and the way it is done for wget is
> just working by chance (see commit log of path 3 for the complete
> explanations.)
>
> So, move the gettextization to the pkg-autotools infra, so we have a
> chance to do it correctly and consistently across packages.
I haven't looked at the details. But to me, when only one package needs
something, it is *way* too early to make changes to the common
infrastructure. Especially when there is a solution that allows to
solve the problem by making changes to the package .mk file itself.
I believe changes to the package infrastructure should only be made
when:
* There is really no solution to solve the particular problem at the
package .mk file level;
* There are a sufficient (say 5 or 10 maybe) packages that have a
similar problem, and therefore factorization would make sense.
So far, I don't really see a compelling reason to complexity the
package infrastructure just for the need of one particular package.
Need that may very well be transient, because a future bump of wget
will most likely remove the need for the gnulib patch, therefore for
the autoreconf.
Thomas
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