Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 04:54:02 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current Message-ID: <20001206045402.A40657@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <20001206023020.X8051@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:30:21AM -0800 References: <86g0k2q7gz.wl@ringo.FromTo.Cc> <20001206034625.A40075@peorth.iteration.net> <20001206023020.X8051@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:30:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein scribbled: | * Michael C . Wu <keichii@iteration.net> [001206 01:46] wrote: | > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa scribbled: | > | I've ported Multilingual sysinstall to -current. I put the latest | > | source and binaries (Japanese/Englush only) is at | > | http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/5.0-CURRENT/release-20001206-1/ | > | (please note that non-English docuemnt files are based on 4.2-RELEASE) | > | | > | Currently, this implementation supports Japanese, Korean, Traditional | > | Chinese, and Russian. The status of translation work is: | > | | > | Japanese: finished | > | Korean: finished | > | Traditional Chinese: about to finish | > | Russian: only *.hlp files have been translated | > | | > | This code has some minor problems, but it works. I think it's better | > | to change the development of this project to open style. I would like | > | to import this code to -current CVS repositry soon if there's no | > | objections. | > | > As we wait for libh development, I do not think we should exert | > efforts to try for another solution. This tends to allow for | > slack in further development of better products. | | No, this motivates those working for a greater good to produce | more than just promises of what's to come. [snip] | > People who run -CURRENT should be able to read and write English to | > understand the code comments, report bugs, and post to the lists in English. | | Why? It's my native tongue and even I have issues on occasion with | comments and manpage additions that forieners correct (Bruce, Eivind, | Asmodai and Sheldon to name a few.) Having a problem with english | doesn't make anyone less of an intellectual. | | > I would have no objections to L10N'ized sysinstall being maintained in | > the same way that PAO is maintained. The boot floppies and iso images | > can be put up somewhere for download, and maintained in RELENG_4. | | Maybe after libh is released... since you guys aren't basing your | work on sysinstall, it's not like you'd have to deal with a code | merger. | This is not about a code merge, this is about how we will support users who use this stuff. If we want to do this, we need to have a centralized support system/mailing lists, instead of the currently very segmented local support systems. I would have no objections if we can figure out a way to support this in a bug reporting system, mailing lists. But I agree you are right, we could use this in 4.x. Perhaps I did not think this one thoroughly. | I think it should be brought in and quickly MFC'd for the next | 4.3 release. | | I see no conflict between these two efforts and since one seems | pretty much completed, I'd like to see it in the base system. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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