Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:50:12 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] New category proposal, i18n Message-ID: <4A3B3524.7090606@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200906181114.43935.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> References: <200906181114.43935.tabthorpe@freebsd.org>
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Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> I would like to propose a new ports category, i18n, it would become the new
> home, physical or virtual, for ports that are i18n or l10n based.
>
> While researching the topic, I found the two terms, i18n and l10n, are often
> used interchangeably, and while either word could be used as the new category
> name, I chose i18 because it seems to keep in line with the efforts of
> freebsd-i18n team.
While I (as an ignorant 'merican) would tend to agree with you that
the terms are close in meaning, my experience is that the people who
care about the differences _really_ care about them. Rather than have
FreeBSD appear to take a position on the debate I would suggest that
we use a term that is both neutral and more descriptive, like
"localization" or something similar.
That said I think that anything we can do to encourage localization as
a goal we should do.
> Currently in the ports tree there are about 220 ports with i18n or l10n as
> part of their package name. Of these ports 159 are in the misc category,
> virtually all of which are related to KDE or Qt.
>
> Should this new category come to being, the self identified ports in misc
> would get relocated. All other ports would simply be extended with the new
> virtual category name.
You've probably already covered this, but are you making a distinction
between ports that are used to _do_ localization-related tasks, and
ports that are localized versions of existing ports?
hth,
Doug
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