Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-09 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:36:26AM +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa scribbled: | At Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:18:50 -0600, | Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > Do you have Alpha boot floppies? Does kons25/big5con/korean compile | > on Alpha? Would this fit on our ever growing mfsroot.flp and kern

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-08 Thread Tatsumi Hosokawa
At Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:18:50 -0600, Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have Alpha boot floppies? Does kons25/big5con/korean compile > on Alpha? Would this fit on our ever growing mfsroot.flp and kern.flp? I don't have alpha machine and my knowledge about Alpha architecture is v

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > I don't think importing multilingual sysinstall will detract effort > from libh. You see, even if it is maintained separately from the > -current, it has its own maintainers and developers. I expect they > are the same people who will maintain and develop I18N sysinst

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa scribbled: | I've ported Multilingual sysinstall to -current. I put the latest | source and binaries (Japanese/Englush only) is at | http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/5.0-CURRENT/release-20001206-1/ | (please note that non-Engli

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wilko Bulte writes: : > You seem to be working from the assumption that people who understand : > English can't understand any other language. : : The reverse is generally true: native speakers of the English/American : language often don't understand any other lang

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> No, KSE has paid developers working on it. When was the last cycle spent > on libh? I'm glad you brought that up - I've been trying to find more things for you to do. I'll bring it up during the engineering staff meeting today. ;-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Jordan Hubbard
My feeling on this is that sysinstall is (and always has been :-) at the end of its life and adding multi-lingual capabilities to it is a reasonable part of its retirement. The libh project is promising but suffers from a lack of volunteers, volunteers who aren't working on sysinstall either so I

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:03:29PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > People who run -CURRENT should be able to read and write English to > > understand the code comments, report bugs, and post to the lists in English. > > > "If you don't know what to do with -CURRENT, don't install it." > > You s

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Trevor Johnson
> People who run -CURRENT should be able to read and write English to > understand the code comments, report bugs, and post to the lists in English. > "If you don't know what to do with -CURRENT, don't install it." You seem to be working from the assumption that people who understand English can

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread CHOI Junho
> "TH" == Tatsumi Hosokawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TH> Multilingual sysinstall project started when FreeBSD is 2.0.5, and TH> maintained in PAO-like style, but it's very larger patch than PAO TH> (especially, it replaces almost all messages in TH> release/sysinstall/menus.

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:30:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > magnitude better than internationalized sysinstall, but at the > current time libh is as much vapourware as KSEs are. No, KSE has paid developers working on it. When was the last cycle spent on libh? To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Tatsumi Hosokawa
At Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:25:30 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >As we wait for libh development, I do not think we should exert > >efforts to try for another solution. This tends to allow for > >slack in further development of better products. > >A good example would be a pro

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>As we wait for libh development, I do not think we should exert >efforts to try for another solution. This tends to allow for >slack in further development of better products. >A good example would be a proposal by Alfred Pernstein to slightly >modify RELENG_4 SMP for the duration of SMPNG deve

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:30:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein scribbled: | * Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001206 01:46] wrote: | > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa scribbled: | > | I've ported Multilingual sysinstall to -current. I put the latest | > | source and bin

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001206 01:46] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa scribbled: > | I've ported Multilingual sysinstall to -current. I put the latest > | source and binaries (Japanese/Englush only) is at > | http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/bo

Re: Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0900, Tatsumi Hosokawa scribbled: | I've ported Multilingual sysinstall to -current. I put the latest | source and binaries (Japanese/Englush only) is at | http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/5.0-CURRENT/release-20001206-1/ | (please note that non-Engli

Progress report: Multilingual sysinstall for -current

2000-12-06 Thread Tatsumi Hosokawa
Hi! I've ported Multilingual sysinstall to -current. I put the latest source and binaries (Japanese/Englush only) is at http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/boot-ja/5.0-CURRENT/release-20001206-1/ (please note that non-English docuemnt files are based on 4.2-RELEASE) Currently, this implementati