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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:17:56 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/msgdef Makefile src/etc Makefile src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist src/lib/libc/locale lmessages.c
Message-ID:  <20011221151756.GC98626@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200112211314.fBLDE2b42673@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200112211314.fBLDE2b42673@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:14:02 -0800, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> phantom     2001/12/21 05:14:02 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     share/msgdef         Makefile 
>     etc                  Makefile 
>     etc/mtree            BSD.usr.dist 
>     lib/libc/locale      lmessages.c 
>   Log:
>   Slightly re-work locale messages storage scheme. Before this commit
>   LC_MESSAGES related data was installed to <locale>/LC_MESSAGES file.
>   Now it go to <locale>/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES file. LC_MESSAGES
>   directory is supposed to be storage of message catalogs of userland tools.
>   This should allow us to avoid many potential problems with future
>   libintl related functionality introduction.

It breaks static binary compatibility at least. I don't think that
touching system locale hierarchy is the right solution - libintl is not
locale. It will be better to make separate hierarchy for libintl (f.e.
'intl') as done for nls.

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

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