gEDA-dev: gEDA/gaf's make maint removes required files

[Stuart Brorson]

>> PS. Why did intltoolize get introduced as a dependancy for gEDA/gaf?
>
> It is needed to translate the .desktop and mime type registrations. The
> normal gettext framework doesn't do those type of files.

Actually, I've been considering whining about the intltoolize stuff,
but decided to keep a stiff upper lip.  Now, however, I've been
prompted to snivel and whine.

I've been having a devil of a time building the stuff requiring
intltoolize [1].  This includes gEDA/gaf as well as xgsch2pcb.  The
intltoolize stuff is very new, and pulls in lots of dependencies on my
older devel boxen.  Yes, this is not a problem for users, but it does
make my life as a developer more difficult.  :-(

Is there any way to make the intltoolize stuff optional at the
automake level?  Or maybe forget about .desktop translations (and the
.desktop stuff itself) for a while, until the stuff is more
widespread?

It's kind of whacky that we require <= GTK-2.4, but then rely upon all
these new whiz-bang features which are probably only a year or two
old.

It does make me think that we need to extend the dependency policy to
exclude anything younger than two years, say.

Opinions?

Stuart

[1] And the desktop tools, and the DBUS stuff, and the pydbus module,
and the .....