[SoaS] Missing gettext dependency needed for localised activities

[Gary Martin]

Hi Luke,

On 27 Sep 2010, at 15:06, Luke Faraone wrote:

> On 09/27/2010 08:29 AM, Gary Martin wrote:
>> Thinking about it some more, whatever the case, without gettext I guess this still make Soas and Dextrose distributions broken for anyone hoping to do a little activity development/tinkering.
> 
> Why can't they install the developer tools via yum?

They could, but they may have a very poor internet connection and even a trivial first yum takes a while even with a reasonable broadband connection as it checks multiple servers and pulls 5-15Mb of content/index files before even getting to gettext downloads, and that is assuming they know gettext is what they need to yum install when ./setup.py build gives them a nasty traceback with no obvious pointers (I didn't know and I poke about with this stuff fairly frequently). Also they may have no internet connection at all, having installed Sugar from some fixed media via sneaker net.

Regards,
--Gary

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