Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:16:29 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, "Dmitry S. Sivachenko" <dima@Chg.RU>, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettext Message-ID: <200006240216.e5O2GWZ13757@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:09:56 %2B0700." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006240642580.7974-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006240642580.7974-100000@lion.butya.kz>, Boris Popo v writes: > [CC'ed to arch due to src-<lang> 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, texin > fo). > > > 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-<LANGID> 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. Let's keep the amount of GNU software in the base system to a minimum. If you need it, why not install the gettext port? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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