Re: involvement of users of locale data

[Peter Nugent <Peter Nugent Sun COM>]

Danilo,
great, I hope it turns out to be as easy as you believe !

one of the things we need to keep in mind here is that this api should 
also be used by the "Language and Culture Capplet" so that this data can 
be configured. In this context , one of the challenges will be to get 
app owners to take ALL their  data from the api. At the moment they use 
message files for their date and time formats (of which some apps have 
many) and take other data from glibc. We need them to make the switch to 
the new api so that this data can then be made configurable. This is the 
reason why I raised my original concern.

thx
Peter



Danilo Šegan ha scritto:
> Today at 12:38, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>
>
> > Basically, the way to do it would be something like we providing clean
> > patches to them and then having translators pushing at them from the
> > other side that this is a good idea. Danilo may be in a good position to
> > help a lot in this. ;-)
>
>
> Yeah, I don't expect any problems from maintainers.  If we can clearly
> demonstrate advantages that using such a library brings, it's easy to
> get them to buy in.  And there are also some developers on this list
> already (Christian "chpe" Persch of Epiphany fame) which are certainly
> going to help us here. :)
>
> I.e. we'll be reporting bugs about that stuff (there are already quite
> a few bugs like that which sit open simply because it's currently
> impossible to resolve them in a nice, clean way), and we already know
> that GTP is able to influence Gnome in significant ways :)
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo