From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:30:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v7 1/2] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext
Message-ID: <AANLkTilSJ_1STKGvat0llqYVZRI8_tQriE-hIBJPEldn@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100605030059.GB2019@progeny.tock>

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 03:01, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..22cdcc1
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/gettext.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
>> +#ifdef NO_GETTEXT
>> +void git_setup_gettext(void) {}
>> +#else
>> +#include "exec_cmd.h"
>> +#include <libintl.h>
>> +#include <stdlib.h>
>> +
>> +void git_setup_gettext(void) {
> [...]
>
> Could this conditional be taken care of by gettext.h and the Makefile
> and avoid complicating the main source file?  i.e., something like
>
>  #ifdef NO_GETTEXT
>  static inline void git_setup_gettext(void) {}
>  #endif
>
> and
>
>  ifndef NO_GETTEXT
>  LIB_OBJS += gettext.o
>  endif

Sure, but that would be putting code in a header file, which is
usually taboo. It looks like there's some prior art on that though.
Like strbuf.h.

I don't care either way, what do you think?