[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] localize with gettext (libintl)

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:08:00AM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/30/06, Torinthiel <torinthiel at megapolis.pl> wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:26:52PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> >> against gettext. It's one of the GNU abominations on par with
> >> autoshit, glibc, etc.
> >
> >What's wrong with glibc? I'm not starting a flamewar, just filling my
> >need for (and lack of) knowledge.
> 
> It's GNU, and Rich hates pretty much everything that comes from GNU.

No, I actually like parts of the original GNU project (some of the
stuff actually written by RMS and other early GNU folks) as well as
the GPL (v2 at least...) and various current packages. What I despise is:

- exponential bloating with each release.
- refusal to fix bugs and blatent violations of standards.
- legacy cruft to keep binary compat with old broken programs at the
  expense of breaking modern correct programs.
- incestuous codependency of all the core packages so that it's
  impossible to ever replace one of them with a better implementation
  without also replacing all the others, which essentially locks you
  in to existing bad implementations just like m$ does..
- absolute inability to use the system on anything with less than
  256-512 megs of ram, much less a standard 386 or such..
- false claims of portability thru autoshit, when their "portability"
  is really special-casing a thousand legacy systems with 10 levels of
  nested unreadable ifdef crap rather than writing clean code that
  just works regardless of the os, which also serves to lock you in to
  existing implementations...
- more i can't think of...

Rich