From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 1 11:48:50 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from arc.hq.cti.ru (arc.hq.cti.ru [195.34.40.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A8E1557F; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru) Received: from arc.hq.cti.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arc.hq.cti.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19509; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:47:36 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru) Message-Id: <199909011847.WAA19509@arc.hq.cti.ru> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/timedef/data ru_SU.CP866.src ru_SU.KOI8-R.src In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Sep 1999 22:08:52 +0400." <19990901220852.A44655@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 22:47:36 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:48:40PM +0400, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > I think it will be good enough to distinguish the old and new format by > > the number of lines, and append the new strings to the end of file. > > Version string implementation will be useful too for possible future > modifications. In general case lines can be not appended only but their > names/order/format can be changed or something can be deleted. Hmm. In general we want old staticaly linked programs to work with new locale format. Therefore we must retain all information from an old format in any new format. I don't think that doing so will ever be difficult in the LC_TIME case. Dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message