From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 23 17:11: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0533137BAD3; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by relay.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 135dWG-00026m-00; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:09:56 +0700 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:09:56 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Alexander Langer Cc: "Dmitry S. Sivachenko" , freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gettext In-Reply-To: <20000623195641.C16231@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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, texinfo). > > 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. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message