From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5453 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Status towards next release (1.1.4) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:58:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20140712145820.GI179@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20140712051035.GA15099@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1a20d12f38c28b0808476ddf4e8ff46d.squirrel@webmail.dragora.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405177128 7959 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2014 14:58:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:58:48 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-5458-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Jul 12 16:58:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X5ykz-0003jd-HL for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:58:33 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 6111 invoked by uid 550); 12 Jul 2014 14:58:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 6102 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2014 14:58:32 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1a20d12f38c28b0808476ddf4e8ff46d.squirrel@webmail.dragora.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5453 Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:41:43AM -0300, Matias A. Fonzo wrote: > Hello, > El Sab, 12 de Julio de 2014, 2:10 am, Rich Felker escribió: > > [..] > > > > - The Big Bikeshed: where to find locale files? These will be somewhat > > musl-specific (to the extent that no other implementation uses the design I > > have in mind, though it would be easy for others to use it), so there's no > > existing practice to simply adopt. The files are not machine-specific > > (we'll support either endianness .mo file) so > > /usr/share (or other prefix variants) is the natural base location. > > Exist: > /usr/lib/locale (glibc) > /usr/share/locale - /usr/local/share/locale (most programs) > /usr/share/X11/locale (X11 programs) > /usr/share/nls (Message catalogs for Native language support) > > The default for musl can be /usr/local/share/musl/locale The location definitely shouldn't be something under /usr/local unless it's just based on the prefix. That would only make sense for installs in /usr/local/musl as a non-default libc for use with the wrapper, but not for musl-based systems or deployment in various mixed environments. Rich