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Re: More i18n of the base system : perl scripts



Le Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 05:47:13PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo écrivait:
> Well, if the idea is to integrate POSIX.pm into perl-base, then the
> issue of the priority of this temporary package isn't really all that
> relevant, since it would just go away.  Given this, I would say
> priority 'optional' (removing required packages is evil).

No, to internationalize a perl script you need to add this
in your script :

use POSIX;
use Locale::gettext;

setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, ""); # => provided by POSIX.pm
textdomain("your_domain");  # => provided by liblocale-gettext.pm

[...]

print gettext("Text that can be translated"); # => provided by liblocale...


That's why a internationalized script has to depend on liblocale-gettext-perl.
And I'd like to translate adduser and other scripts like that, so it needs
to be of priority required.

> Yes; I would discuss with the perl-base maintainer first; I don't have
> the technical info on Perl to really know how reasonable your plan is.

I asked him todo so, he didn't have any objections, he was just wondering
about the size of POSIX.pm and associated files.

cf bug #33194

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/


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