On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:14:34PM +0200, Danilo Segan wrote:
>cetvrtak, 14. avgust 2003. 13:12:05 - Dr Andrew C Aitchison napisa:
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Danilo Segan wrote:
>>
>> > For the sake of difference, I would recommend the following:
>> > - National keymaps should use ISO 3166 code in all UPPERCASE (eg.
>> > "US")
>> > - Linguistic keymaps should use ISO 639 code in all lowercase (eg.
>> > "en")
>>
>> Is this going to cause us to run into CVS problem we had resentily,
>> where we couldn't rename file hp to directory HP (or similar) ?
>>
>
>Very much probable -- I completely forgot about the insane operating
>systems that cannot differentiate between lower- and uppercase (you
>didn't raise this point, but I was reminded of it, and it seems valid),
>and about the CVS software limitations (regarding renames).
>
>Though, if anything of this scale is to be done, I'd be very eager to
>add a completely new directory ("namespace") in order not to break
>compatibility. Eg. I'd introduce a new "xkb/symbols/improved" directory
>where to put these kind of maps ;-)
Or maybe all of the xkb config files can go to a new location outside
of xc/programs/xkbcomp. Once there is a good proposal for a more
consistent and logical structure for all of these files, they can be
moved. That way we don't need to be constrained by these CVS limitations.
David
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