Re: TZ and i18n files.

[Adam Fedor]

Tim Harrison wrote:

> 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. ;)


You can read

/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/Resources/NSTimeZones/README


For a little explaination of why we use different tz files.

We do actually use i18n functions when there isn't a GNUstep language 
file, but the GNUstep ones have a little more information, and they 
don't really take up that much room anyway.



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