Chinese yes - sure, but maybe not British English what's about here if I correctly read Hugh's message.
Another way around would maybe to configure a local directory with the needed files, without the need to copy them to framework/source/locale. Any opinions? Sebastian Christian Boulanger schrieb: > Sorry, left out a word: > > Forgive me my unqualified comment, but wouldn't Chinese qualify as a > "major" language ? A few more people speak Chinese than, for example, > French (or German, for that matter). ;-) > > Sebastian Werner schrieb: >> Hi Hugh! >> >> The only good way I could think of is to mirror the stuff somewhere >> locally and make the download server configureable in the Makefile. Do >> you think this would be helpful in your case? >> >> We don't like to put all data in our repository because of the size and >> the work needed to keep in sync with unicode.org. We just added the >> major languages like english and francais to svn. >> >> Regards, >> >> Sebastian >> >> >> >> >> >> Hugh Gibson schrieb: >> >>> I work with a colleague in China. With a recent change to our application >>> and 0.6.6, the build process tried to download >>> http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/main/en_GB.xml >>> >>> However, unicode.org is not accessible to him - it must be on the blacklist >>> of the "great wall of china" - the firewall which is around all Chinese >>> internet users (see >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China >>> >>> >>> The workaround for us was to manually download en_GB.xml here in the UK, >>> send it to my colleague and have him put it in >>> fronted/framework/source/locale. Now the build process (actually impl.mk) >>> doesn't have to download the file and the build proceeds normally. >>> >>> Obviously this is easy to work around but it involves hacking into the >>> source tree. You might want to consider other ways around this. For >>> example, including the chinese XML configuration files as standard so a >>> Chinese user doesn't have this problem. Or even including all the >>> configuration files as standard. >>> >>> Hugh >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >>> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >>> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >>> _______________________________________________ >>> qooxdoo-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _______________________________________________ >> qooxdoo-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
