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From: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@pc.jaring.my>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > I removed some dirty hacks from Makefiles of src/release (you can make
> > original English version if you don't define any L10N options in
> > src/release/Makafile), and our L10N team finished the extraction of
> > "hardcoded" message of sysinstall into external text file.  So, this
> > version can be easily extended to support other languages.
> 
> Excellent!  I've always had something like this on my TODO list, along
> with the floppy docs, FAQ and Handbook.
> 
> We still need to work with John Fieber on some scheme of maintaining
> multiple parallel language versions of our docs, as well as
> eliminating the boot floppy docs and making them subsections of the
> handbook instead, or translation work is going to remain brute-force
> and overly difficult.
> 
> Please don't misunderstand me, either.  I think that the work you and
> the L10N team are doing is great, and is something which fills a very
> definite short-term need.  I'm just somewhat afraid of having another
> ``FreeBSD 2.0.5'' where a lot of work was expended in doing
> bruce-force translations but almost none at all in implementing the
> kind of framework which would have allowed that work to be carried
> successfully forward into 2.1 and 2.1.5 (and I blame myself for this
> more than anyone else).  As a result, we got one version of FreeBSD
> I18N'd when we might have gotten 3 for only a little extra effort.
> 
> I will look at your changes to sysinstall and try to merge them back
> into -current.  For the documentation, I think it's really time to
> decide just what needs to be done and do it.  We've only talked about
> doing something for too long, and the emergence of these floppies a
> signal to me that the user base is tired of waiting! :-)
> 
> John, do you have time for this right now?  Anyone else interested in
> engaging on a little architectural discussion on the side?
> 
>                                                 Jordan

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