Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:32:33PM -0800, April Chin wrote:
[snip]
> Given that the messages won't be translated until we start approaching FCS,
> can we simply postpone the message build for a couple of builds?

The question is... who can decide that ?

In general it would be nice to have the messsage generation running that
the i18n/l10n people can take a look at it and check whether it is
working or whether any corrections/improvements are neccesary (e.g.
localisation itself works with both singlebyte and multibyte locales but
we did not test more complex locales like zh_CN.GB18030 with the OS/Net
setup yet or whether the tools used by the l10n people at Sun are 100%
compatible with the AST file format) and to have a way to start the
translation process... somewhere very high on my wishlist is to
contribute translated message catalogs back to AT&T...
... but I am fine with the idea to integrate with catalog generation
disabled for now.

> The
> targets can all be in place and usable for anyone who wants to (and can)
> build them, but the .po files would need to not be in SUNW0on.

The message generation is centralised in
usr/src/lib/libast/Makefile.libastl10n and can be disabled there. The
quiz is if there is a way to automate this in a way that we don't have
to edit SUNW0on each time we turn the l10n catalog generation on or
off...

> Will ksh93 be in its own self-contained package that can easily be added to
> a build machine on receipt of the flag-day message?

No, "ksh93" is in the same package as "ksh", e.g. "SUNWcsu"... however
that is only the frontend binary (~~5k) which calls into libshell (which
sits in "SUNWcsl" and contains the ksh93 core ... and then there are
other parts which sit in other packages...). I am trying to avoid
creating new packages for that as this would collide with Rainer Orth's
work in the package database.... but I could provide a binary tarball
for the build machines on demand...

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Bye,
Roland

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