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Re: TZ and i18n files.


From: Richard Frith-Macdonald
Subject: Re: TZ and i18n files.
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:50:21 +0000

On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 11:01 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:


Am Dienstag den, 19. März 2002, um 22:36, schrieb Tim Harrison:

I know that it would break portability to have GNUstep depend on those files from glibc, as not every system uses it. However, if the files are similar (as I believe they all come from a common source), would adding, say, --with-alt- tz=/path/to/files and --with-alt-i18n=/path/to/files be a horrific thing? That way, you'd only have one place on the filesystem containing those types of files, instead of two. Not to mention, it would make my life easier on LinuxSTEP. ;)

... and it would save 590 files.

As timezone files on Unixes are in well-known places, we could check at installation time and create a symlink for the directory.

That would only work if all the systems have the same set of timezone names defined. If not, there would need to be some sort of mapping process to remove any non-standard zones and add any missing ones ... so all copies of GNUstep worked with the same set of timezones and could interoperate consistently (zone names are important for dates in archives and passed
over DO between processes on a network).




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