Re: Versioned mo file installation

Solaris currently stores messages into separate directories like 
/usr/postgres/8.3/share/locale which solves multiversion problem, but it brings 
another problem, because gettext on solaris needs extra directory infrastructure.

I think debians patch is good approach.
    Zdenek

Peter Eisentraut napsal(a):
> One issue with packaged multiple-version installations (practiced by 
> Debian, Solaris, and soon Fedora?) is that the mo files (translation 
> files) should be in a fixed location like /usr/share/locale, which does 
> not allow PostgreSQL-version specific subdirectories.
> 
> The Debian packages solve this by appending a version number to the mo 
> files themselves, as can be seen in this patch:
> 
>
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pitti/postgresql/debian-8.3/annotate/127?file_id=03gettextdomains.pat-20060925215343-vp3e1xxgtg0tzea6-45

> 
> 
> Solaris packaging is currently looking for a solution, and the Fedora 
> initiative might as well?  So I figured we could adopt something like 
> the above patch as a built-in solution, as a build option or even by 
> default.
> 
> Comments?