[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

[Irek Szczesniak]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos
<asyropoulos at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg00002.html
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>> The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their "fallback" mode,
>
> These people have created a desktop for Linux and they do not care about
> anything else. Unfortunately, this happens with many projects. So either
> you "Linuxize" your OS or it drops dead...

locale_t/newlocale()/uselocale() and the *_l() apis are hardly
"Linuxize your OS", they are POSIX.

I talked to the Gnome people about this issue. It seems the initial
consumers are xml/xsl processing (e.g. xml/xsl @lang and sort
directives), which is used *everywhere* and GtkCalendar. The other
point was that the locale_t functions are used in shared libraries,
which should be able to do locale processing in all locales the user
wants, but should not change the per process global locale to avoid
race conditions with other shared libraries.

Stubs won't be allowed, too. configure will just fail if they detect a
stub which still uses or relies on setlocale().

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Irek