This seems questionable to me. The problem is that gettext(s) is evaluated at the time of macro expansion, which for a package will typically happen during the precompilation step
This has the advantage of incurring no runtime cost. But what if the user changes the locale, however? Existing packages won't be recompiled to reflect the new locale.
(One could, in principle, get the best of both worlds if there were a way to make the package cache dependent o the locale, so that packages using Gettext automatically get recompiled if the locale changes. I don't think there is currently a way to do this, however.)
Currently, the module defines:
This seems questionable to me. The problem is that
gettext(s)is evaluated at the time of macro expansion, which for a package will typically happen during the precompilation stepThis has the advantage of incurring no runtime cost. But what if the user changes the locale, however? Existing packages won't be recompiled to reflect the new locale.
(One could, in principle, get the best of both worlds if there were a way to make the package cache dependent o the locale, so that packages using
Gettextautomatically get recompiled if the locale changes. I don't think there is currently a way to do this, however.)