No problem, Jan. If anyone else have comments or concerns about my proposal, please send them to me promptly. I consider my proposal accepted, and am working on design document which I will send out soon.
Thank you, Jan On 12/16/08 14:07, jan damborsky wrote: > Hi Jan, > > thank you very much for incorporating > those changes ! > > Jan > > > Jan Trejbal wrote: >> Hello Jan, >> good to hear you like the idea. >> Thank you very much for very valid comments. I updated the proposal >> document accordingly. See more details in-line. >> >> Jan Damborsky wrote: >>> Hi Jan, >>> >>> thank you very much for coming with this proposal. >>> In the past the installer was suffering from the lack of >>> the API for dealing with languages and locale stuff. >>> The implementation of G11N related stuff in the installer >>> technologies was not robust and it was difficult to >>> keep it up to date, since we were not aware of changes >>> happening in that area. >>> >>> I think that having stable G11N API defined which install >>> technologies might take advantage of would help to address >>> most the of problems we have been encountering in that area. >>> >>> The high level proposal looks good, I have couple of comments. >>> >>> Since the module is planned to be implemented as C library, >>> I would recommend to include also test driver as part of >>> delivery. It could be used by QE team as part of their test >>> suites for G11N module, it would make process of evaluating >>> potential problems easier and could be used by other than >>> C consumers as API wrapper (for instance in set_lang script). >>> Please see Target Discovery or Target Instantiation test >>> drivers for more details and possible implementation: >>> >>> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/slim_source/usr/src/lib/libtd/test_td.c >>> >>> >>> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/slim_source/usr/src/lib/libti/test_ti.c >>> >> >> >> >> Command-line test driver is a good idea. I included it in proposal doc >> and drawing. >> Thank you for test driver examples. >> >>> >>> >>> Introduction of G11n install module >>> ----------------------------------- >>> The module would also provide way to >>> set language and locale >> >> I changed Introduction and included the "set language/locale" >> functionality in list of requirements. >> >>> >>> Relation to other modules >>> ------------------------- >>> * picture >>> In current implementation, set_lang is shell script, >>> so it would probably take advantage of test driver >>> instead of orchestrator for setting desktop language on livecd. >>> also, the implementation is likely to be changed in the future, >>> when support for graphical boot is available. >> >> Right, currently set_lang need to call the test driver. >> In future this may change. >> >>> >>> Thanks ! >>> Jan >>> >>> >>> >>> Jan Trejbal wrote: >>>> Hello Caiman team. >>>> I would like to propose a new module which provides information >>>> about languages and locales. >>>> It's actually not a brand new module. My plan is to take >>>> orchestrator locale.c component, remove unused code, add some new >>>> functionality, and separate it out into a new stand-alone shared >>>> library. >>>> >>>> I believe various installer appls (e.g. gui-install, AI) as well as >>>> other system appls (e.g. post-install mngmt of language bits) would >>>> benefit from proposed library. >>>> >>>> See more details at following document: >>>> http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/45908778/g11ninstall_mod_proposal.pdf >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Can you please consider my proposal and review it? >>>> Thank you, >>>> Jan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>> >
