[MacPorts] #58526: gettext: 0.20.1 was released

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#58526: gettext: 0.20.1 was released
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  Reporter:  akimd    |      Owner:  ryandesign
      Type:  update   |     Status:  accepted
  Priority:  Normal   |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports    |    Version:
Resolution:           |   Keywords:
      Port:  gettext  |
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Changes (by ryandesign):

 * cc: jmroot (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:10 akimd]:
 > I don't know what these -bootstrap ports are for.

 We want to build everything using libc++ on Mac OS X 10.6 and later, but
 Mac OS X 10.6 does not provide libc++; we have to build it and install it.
 There is a chicken and egg problem: how could you build libc++'s
 dependencies using libc++ if there is no libc++ yet? The answer was to
 provide "bootstrap" versions of libc++'s dependencies that would use
 libstdc++ instead of libc++. gettext is one of those dependencies.

 It could be argued that for the bootstrap ports we should disable as much
 optional functionality as possible, since they're just for us to use to
 build libc++ and are not intended for users to use directly, and that that
 might include natural language support provided by gettext. I wasn't
 involved with [changeset:640b7e0aa8710d26cd0af15bde29bb6290ad6b20
 /macports-ports the creation of the bootstrap ports] so I don't know why
 that wasn't done, but it would introduce additional complexity into the
 bootstrap ports. Maybe it was felt to be better to keep the bootstrap and
 non-bootstrap versions of the ports as similar as possible.

 Joshua, do you recall whether it was considered to disable gettext support
 in the bootstrap ports so that we wouldn't need to have a gettext-
 bootstrap port?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58526#comment:11>
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