On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:21:11PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:

> Danek Duvall wrote:
>
> > 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 ?

I believe the C-Team can.

> 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

I'm sure that someone here can facilitate that before the messages make it
into the official build, if you want to get that ball rolling.

> 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...

I don't think so, short of generating SUNW0on's prototype files on the fly,
which is, I think, more than we want to do here.  They'll only have to
change once, with the addition of the catalogs.

> > 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?
> 
> I am trying to avoid creating new packages for that as this would collide
> with Rainer Orth's work in the package database....

Hunh.  Okay.

> but I could provide a binary tarball for the build machines on demand...

That would be convenient, I think, saving build machine maintainers from
having to do a full upgrade.

Thanks,
Danek

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