From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T05:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby-GetText-Package-1.1.0

I personally tend to follow the philosophy that if I don't understand
what something is, I probably don't need or want it.

Also as far as I know, GetText is just a system for getting strings
for user interfaces in multiple languages.

Ryan

On 12/29/05, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com> wrote:
> Masao,
>
> Please - realize that only part of the world understands obscure
> statements like "Ruby-GetText-Package is a Native Language Support Library
> and Tools which is modeled after GNU gettext package, but is not a wrapper
> of GNU GetText."
>
> As a Rubie-newbie, and a user of Windows, I have almost NO idea what this
> means. What in blazes is "GNU GetText"? I scanned several pages at the Get
> Text web site, and nowhere could I find a simple statement telling me what
> this ruby thing DOES (and why I shouldn't just ignore it, which is what I
> decided to so).
>
> It just seems to me that if you want people like me to dig into this
> package, it might be made less baffling. Time is precious.
>
> Tom C.