madscientist:
the reason for wanting backwards compatability with gettext 0.10 is that alot of us don't have 0.11 on our systems, and because trying to support both gettext 0.10 and 0.11, the many various versions of autoconf (2.13, 2.52-54, 2.54 not being compatable with 2.53...), and automake 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 (also not entirely compatable with each other), and the various combinations of those packages people might have is next to impossible. in #gaim on opn we are getting people who have all sorts of combinations, and we have for the most part had to just say "okay, if you don't have versions x y and z respectively, you are sol". That's not an ideal situation.