Re: more nonfree stuff

[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:08:04PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:55:43AM +0100, Alexander Sack <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> > Note, I consider it good news that mozilla appears to be willing to
> > work on non-free mess in their sources [1]  - in the long
> > run. However, this is going to take time. So lets just give them the
> > time they need to chew on this instead of demanding something (Toby
> > Smithe: to be honest, they just don't owe anything to us). Once
> > mozilla asks for help, provide them with what they need (e.g. a list
> > of non-free files, places where branding is still hard-coded, bugzilla
> > references, etc.).
> 
> We can also cleanly patch the source and send the patches to them,
> instead of just pointing out the files.
> 

I can imagine that we could use #expand for brand.dtd.in files ... can/should
we do the same for .properties (e.g. -> properties.in) files?

Anyway, what substitution variables would we need in addition to those
that exist (e.g. APP_DISPLAY_NAME)?

I see:

VENDOR_NAME (doesn't this exist already?)
VENDOR_BASEURL (e.g. http://www.mozilla.org or http://gnuzilla.gnu.org)
COMPONENT_CALENDAR_NAME (e.g. Sunbird and Calendar)
COMPONENT_CALENDAR_URL_PATH (e.g. '/projects/calendar' and '/calendar.html')

.. any more?

And what about appstrings? How can we approach that? For me sedding
seems feasible as we could easily sed through all locales ... 

 - Alexander

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