[Typo3-dev] gettext as default translation system

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Martin Kutschker schrieb am 23.11.2005 09:28:

>> Is there any reason to NOT use gettext as teh default translation system?

> Gettext works on compiled string resources, so TYPO3 (and the
> extensions!) would have to ship with gettext-Makefiles and a dependency
> on the gettext command line tools.

Its up to the developer to compile the resources, so this is just a
burden to the TYPO/EXT developer. The end user just uses the compiled
and provided .mo files. This is being done that way on all major
PHP-projects that use gettext (e.g. Gallery), so it shouldn't be an issue.

Cheers,
Ernesto