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Re: Packaging of gettext message catalogs (.mo files)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:36:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: Packaging of gettext message catalogs (.mo files)
- References: <041d01c5b8b2$b0404a60$5304a8c0@chimaera>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:30:04PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Taking a look at my main Subversion binary package, I've noticed that the
>gettext message catalogs account for almost half the size of the tarball -
>and over half of the unpacked size.
>
>Approx sizes (.mo files/other files)
>Compressed 458kB / 467kB
>Unpacked 2.0MB / 1.5MB
>
>I'm wondering whether it would be worthwhile splitting the .mo files off
>into a seperate package. This would, of course, be setting something of a
>precedent, though, so I'm asking for opinions.
What's the point of doing this? You need the catalog no matter what don't
you?
cgf