Status of gettext integration

[bastelfreak]

Use Case

I noticed that gettext is used to translate some strings: https://github.com/puppetlabs/r10k/blob/main/locales/r10k.pot

As far as I know this was used in the past to make a translation into Asian languages possible. But that was never implemented. Packaging r10k is a bit painful because of the gettext dependencies. If we could get rid of it because it's not used, that would be nice.

Describe the Solution You Would Like

Let me know if gettext is still used or if I can remove it.

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[bastelfreak]

@justinstoller hi! in case the major release is coming soon and you tell me gettext is dead, now might be a good time to rip it out.

[justinstoller]

Sure, I'll work on removing gettext.

[justinstoller]

Nevermind, I was told to stop. I believe what to do with our internationalization tooling has been raised up as a question to product, but I don't believe answering that particular question is high on their priorities at the moment. So I'm not sure when it will be answered and we shouldn't block r10k 5 on it.

In the future you can check out my work at main...justinstoller:r10k:no-more-gettext

[bastelfreak]

Ah perfect, than I don't have anything else for a 5.0.0 release

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[bastelfreak]

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