* Gettext 1.04 or up is needed for the OO interface that ikiwiki needs,

  if an older version is installed, just don't gettext strings, instead of
  crashing.

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/bugs/Missing_constant_domain_at_IkiWiki.pm_line_842.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Missing_constant_domain_at_IkiWiki.pm_line_842.mdwn
index d4fa9c241..629006139 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/Missing_constant_domain_at_IkiWiki.pm_line_842.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Missing_constant_domain_at_IkiWiki.pm_line_842.mdwn
@@ -25,4 +25,14 @@ new version of Locale::gettext fixed it. --Ethan
 > way to use the non-OO version while still getting proper UTF-8 strings,
 > which is why I began to use the OO version in the first place..
 > 
-> Looks like the OO interface was added in version 1.04 --[[Joey]]
+> Looks like the OO interface was added in version 1.04
+> 
+> And there's no good way to get utf-8 strings w/o the OO interface, that I
+> can see.
+> 
+> So, what I've done is documented that it needs Locale::gettext 1.04, and
+> made it not crash if run with an older version, though it also won't
+> gettext anything in that case. Might be a bit confusing if someone misses
+> the docs about it needing the newer version and wonders why gettext
+> doesn't work, but I consider it good enough to mark this [[bugs/done]. 
+> --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn
index d9c2a79f7..da84616e4 100644
--- a/doc/install.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install.mdwn
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ installed, and also uses the following perl modules if available:
 [[cpan CGI::Session]], [[cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] (version 3.02.02 or newer),
 [[cpan Mail::Sendmail]], [[cpan Time::Duration]], [[cpan TimeDate]],
 [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]], [[cpan RPC::XML]], [[cpan XML::Simple]],
-[[cpan XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]], [[cpan Locale::gettext]].
+[[cpan XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]], [[cpan Locale::gettext]]
+(version 1.04 or newer).
 
 The [[tla]] support also needs the [[cpan MailTools]] perl module.