Re: Sorting is implemented in cdebconf CVS (was Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS)
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:37:25AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
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> > * This script should be split into 2 parts:
> > a. print the sorted list (ie $output) into a file sorted.$lang
> > b. read sorted.$lang files and add Indices fields.
> > This way sorted.$lang files could be put under CVS wings and
> > translators might check that countries are sorted as expected.
> > Maintainer can run (b) without having locales installed.
>
> Seems to be the only way....
>
> However, in the meantime, the country sorting by region has been added
> by Joey.
For English names only.
> No idea if this changes the proposed scheme. I don't really
> like having sorted.* files in CVS as this loses one advantage we had
> until then : the translations were completely outside the
> package. With this, we somewhat put them again in the package....
I am afraid that there is no other solution if you want sorted entries
before the locales package is installed.
Denis
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