Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:51:11 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: i18n@freebsd.org, audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2CFR: locale names renaming Message-ID: <20010602155111.A43979@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <86wv6vrvhm.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr>; from cjh@kr.FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:07:01PM %2B0900 References: <20010602040851.A34526@nagual.pp.ru> <86ofs7thvy.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr> <20010602143139.A43237@nagual.pp.ru> <86wv6vrvhm.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr>
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 20:07:01 +0900, CHOI Junho wrote: > >>>>> "AAC" == Andrey A Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes: > > AAC> It is possible (via symlinks) but I don't think it is good idea, even for > AAC> transition period. If we preserve compatibility, people never change their > AAC> environment LANG variables, so programs which parse LANG directly will be > AAC> in trouble since in each and every such programs we need to add both > AAC> variants. So there is no advantage of using new scheme since old scheme > AAC> must be coded each time too. We already have too many locale changes in > AAC> -current to make it is already incompatible with 4.3 locale, so yet one > AAC> incompatible change don't play role here. > > If so, why we still have libxpg4 in -current? We can remove that dummy > library now. I will not object. BTW, the case you mention is different because no per-program changes required with or without libxpg4. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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