From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:08:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitk: Provide a default mc function if msgcat is not available
Message-ID: <7vws2k4f7u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1256415640-10328-3-git-send-email-bernt@norang.ca>

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> Msgcat is available since Tcl 8.1.  For really old versions of Tcl
> provide a default mc that just returns the text untranslated.  This
> allows the Tcl version check to return the error in a window instead
> of making Tcl abort when attempting to load the msgcat package.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
> ---
> I'm not sure if we care about Tcl versions older than 8.1 but this at
> least shows the error in the window with the [OK] button.

Both patches sound very sensible.