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Telford Tendys <telford@triangle.triode.net.au> writes: > > > I'd like to see docstrings compiled into the executable since it > > > minimizes the number of files that need to be installed. > > > > I would say definitely not, because we want to translate the > > doc strings into ten thousand different (human) languages and > > choose which file to use based upon local settings. > > I feel that since the idea is to distribute source code as widely > as possible, having executables tailored to a particular human language > is not such a bad thing. I disagree. Or rather, it should definitely be facultative. For example, if you were running the computer system at McGill, rather than have two execuatbles, "french-guile" and "english-guile" it would be nice to switch languages the standard way, by setting the environment variable. Many installations need more than one language. Andrew > - Tel