From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 23 19:18:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A208837B73A; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id TAA25791; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:16:58 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda25789; Fri Jun 23 19:16:46 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA05310; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdAN5300; Fri Jun 23 19:16:33 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.2/8.9.1) id e5O2GWZ13757; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006240216.e5O2GWZ13757@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdG13753; Fri Jun 23 19:16:29 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: Boris Popov Cc: Alexander Langer , "Dmitry S. Sivachenko" , freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettext In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:09:56 +0700." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:16:29 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Boris Popo v writes: > [CC'ed to arch due to src- suggestion below] > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: > > > > What do people think about including gettext into base distribution? > > > Many programs have their messages translated (tar, flex, grep, sed, texin > fo). > > > It would be very nice to use this in the base system. > > > > I hate translated messages. > > Use AIX if you want translated crap :) > > This is not correct. Not everybody knows English well, these are > mostly newbies and having translated docs and program messages is a real > help for them. > > However I'm not sure where language specific resources should be > placed. The library definitely goes into base system, but the rest (IMO) > shouldn't because it will cause unnecessary growth of the source tree and, > in very rare cases one need more than two language packs. So, may be > having src- repository will help ? For example, I can put 'src-ru' > line in my cvsup file and get all info/man/program translations in Russian > or download and install a port which will be just a tarball of src-ru > directory. > > In addition, the above scheme will reserve place where all > country/language specific resources (such as character sets for the iconv > interface) can be placed. Let's keep the amount of GNU software in the base system to a minimum. If you need it, why not install the gettext port? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message