Re: setup.exe sizes openldap-2-2-15

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > Reini Urban schrieb:
> > > Dr. Volker Zell schrieb:
> > > > > > > > > Christopher Faylor writes:
> > > >     > I don't see it anywhere.  The closest thing I see is:
> > > >     > libopenldap2_2_7/libopenldap2_2_7-2.2.17-1.tar.bz2
> > > >
> > > > That's ok. I don't know what Reini is seeing.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I didn't make a screenshot and did't backup this setup.ini 
> > > in
> > > question.
> > > But it is fixed now indeed.
> > > Looks like a ini parser problem.
> >
> > Ok, I reproduced it and have a screenshot:
> > http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/temp/setup-libopenldap-2-15-2.png
> > This is with my setup fixes, which substr's the version at 45.
> > [snip]
>
> This raises another interesting feature request -- internationalizing
> setup's messages and dialogs.  Same way that the "Back", "Next", and
> "Cancel" buttons are translated into German...  We could have a "translate
> Cygwin setup into your language" effort similar to Google's (though likely
> not with the same response rate)...

AFAIK, there are 2 ways to do it.

1. Insist that *every* string in setup ends up in a windows "resource".
2. Try to come up with some way to use gettext.

I much prefer having english strings in the source code, rather than 
#defined constants, which is what the windows resource solution requires.

Max.