From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 21:43:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23099 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:43:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23046 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA29877; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:24:06 -0800 (PST) To: hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:13:11 +0900." <199801280513.OAA07341@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:24:06 -0800 Message-ID: <29874.885965046@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > The major problems of multilingual support is: it modifies almost > *ALL* messages by adding message tags (except msgDebug() messages). > Modifications made near any messages, always bring about the .rej's of > patch, and I have to sync *ALL* of these changes manually (especially > it's very hard work for menus.c). I'm always happy to adjust to a new msg database scheme, I just need to see support for it merged into the -current and 2.2 sources first so that I can abide by whatever new conventions are in effect when I make further changes. > If our multilingual support is merged to the -current, this work will > be very easier. I believe that our multilingual support > implementation brakes nothing. We'll be happy if it's merged into the > -current. And I'd be happy to see one of the Japanese committers merge it - do you have someone in mind? Jordan