[Dextrose] Missing gettext dependency needed for localised activities

[Gary Martin]

On 18 Sep 2010, at 01:23, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 21:57 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> Just wanted to email this ticket out and make sure the gettext package
>> makes it into the Soas and Dextrose distros. Without it none of the
>> activity po files will be built at bundle install time, thus failing
>> to create the locale directory binary .mo files. Without this,
>> activity translations will not work. This appears to be a break going
>> back to at least Soas Mirabelle.
> 
> Why did most activities correctly come out in Spanish, then?

I have this terrible, horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that some distro packages have built in the binary .mo locale files rather than the po source directory...

--Gary 

> Anyway, if gettext is really needed we could simply make the
> sugar-toolkit package depend on gettext so it works everywhere.
> 
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