From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 21 8:48:45 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C975637B416; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:48:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ark.cris.net (ns2.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA79314; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:48:15 +0200 (EET) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fBLGljo92225; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:47:45 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:47:45 +0200 From: Alexey Zelkin To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/msgdef Makefile src/etc Makefile src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist src/lib/libc/locale lmessages.c Message-ID: <20011221184745.A91245@ark.cris.net> References: <200112211314.fBLDE2b42673@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011221151756.GC98626@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20011221151756.GC98626@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 06:17:56PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 06:17:56PM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > phantom 2001/12/21 05:14:02 PST > > > > Modified files: > > share/msgdef Makefile > > etc Makefile > > etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist > > lib/libc/locale lmessages.c > > Log: > > Slightly re-work locale messages storage scheme. Before this commit > > LC_MESSAGES related data was installed to /LC_MESSAGES file. > > Now it go to /LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES file. LC_MESSAGES > > directory is supposed to be storage of message catalogs of userland tools. > > This should allow us to avoid many potential problems with future > > libintl related functionality introduction. > > It breaks static binary compatibility at least. I don't think that > touching system locale hierarchy is the right solution - libintl is not Hmm... I not sure how it will break compatibility. Anyway, since this functionality is not merged to RELENG_4 (whole LC_MESSAGES support) I don't think that preserving compatibility is important issue. > locale. It will be better to make separate hierarchy for libintl (f.e. > 'intl') as done for nls. Such behavior is not applicable to any existent gettext() implementation. Why create additional incompatility between even BSD's (not to mention Linux even) ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message