gettext-devel package dependency on git?

[Matthew Sheets]

>>> Is this explicit listing of "git" as a dependency of "gettext-devel" 
>>> necessary?  Can it be removed?
>> 
>> It appears to be used to access git-archive used by --with-git option to 
>> compress some data formats, but I will have to check further to find out what 
>> that entails exactly.
>
>Looks like we can drop bz2 and git as the default xz is used anyway.

Great news!

> Another suggestion was that we should include building libtextstyle as recent 
> Fedora does.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with libtextstyle and think Cygwin might have 
> any issues if that library is included?

Apart from seeing a patch to disable libtextstyle in the Cygwin gettext-src
package, I am not familiar with what any Cygwin impacts might be.

https://cygwin.com/packages/src/gettext-src/gettext-0.22.5-1-src
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/gettext/tree/gettext-0.22-disable-libtextstyle.patch


Thank you,
Matthew