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Date:      Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:24:29 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@bsdclub.org>
Cc:        CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.FreeBSD.ORG>, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2CFR: locale names renaming
Message-ID:  <20010603002428.C48861@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010603002153.A48861@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:21:53AM %2B0400
References:  <20010602040851.A34526@nagual.pp.ru> <86ofs7thvy.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr> <20010602143139.A43237@nagual.pp.ru> <200106021345.f52DjJ218044@sakura.mk.bsdclub.org> <20010603002153.A48861@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 00:21:53 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 22:45:19 +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote:
> > "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
> > > It is possible (via symlinks) but I don't think it is good idea, even for
> > > transition period. If we preserve compatibility, people never change their
> > > environment LANG variables, so programs which parse LANG directly will be
> > > in trouble since in each and every such programs we need to add both
> > > variants.
> > 
> > So, we have to take enough time for transition period.
> 
> Transition period means just delay whole thing until transition period
> end. After the end the same thing happens like without transition period,
> because people don't touch their setups when they works, so you can
> consider that transition period ends now.

Remember this is for -current only and not planned to be merged to -stable
so you have _big_ transition period until 5.0 will be released.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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