Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53251&edit=1
ID: 53251
Comment by: greno at verizon dot net
Reported by: jeanseb at au-fil-du dot net
Summary: bindtextdomain with null directory doesn't return
the previously set
Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: Gettext related
Operating System: Debian 5.0.6
PHP Version: 5.3.3
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The current working directory (CWD) has nothing to do with the behavior
of bindtextdomain except in the sense of a point from which relative
paths will start. Any relative path must be stored as relative so that
if the CWD does change that the bind is then relative to the new working
directory.
The behavior must be exactly like I pointed out previously. Please read
through my previous posts carefully and try the examples shown from
python. Or for that matter run a test using straight GNU bindtextdomain
and you will see the proper behavior is as I have described.
And this needs to get into 5.2.15 and 5.3.4 as soon as possible.
.
Previous Comments:
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[2010-11-24 00:28:52] paj...@php.net
hi,
About the relative directories, what's about making them absolute before
passing them to gettext? The problem here is that the script CWD may not
be the library (apache or whatever else) CWD, that's the typical usage
of the virtual CWD.
Looking at the current implementation:
- has '0' any special meaning for bindtextdomain?
if not and if it is about testing empty string, this code is wrong and
ugly :)
- If an empty string is given, passing VCWD_GETCWD results should be the
right thing to do
- the current code has a leak, dir_name should be freed if VCWD_GETCWD
called succeeded
About including it in 5.3.4, it is too late. However trunk is open, so
please try to agree on the behavior(s) and update the patch accordingly.
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[2010-11-18 23:10:37] greno at verizon dot net
It's not whether there is a use case or not, that's how bindtextdomain
is defined to work.
The PHP implementation needs to work exactly like the GNU implementation
and other implementations in other languages such as python for example,
and right now it doesn't.
That's why I pointed out the fact that relative directories are valid
and in the case where a call is made with a NULL directory argument but
no previous setting was made, that the correct behavior is to return the
default locale directory for the system.
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[2010-11-18 22:31:20] jeanseb at au-fil-du dot net
I haven't svn access yet and I prefer that someone with more background
review this patch because it introduce an bc break.
For the relative path, I don't see any benefits to change this
behaviour. Can you produce a real use case. Thank's
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[2010-11-18 21:59:36] greno at verizon dot net
Please fix this bug for 5.2.15 as well as 5.3.3.
This flaw prevents being able to query the existing directory setting
for the domain and in turn this destroys any ability to nest usage of
different translation stores.
.
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[2010-11-07 15:52:33] greno at verizon dot net
And to clarify regarding the case where no previous bindtextdomain call
was made prior to the bindtextdomain call with a NULL directory
argument.
In this case bindtextdomain should return the default locale directory
for the system. In the case of Linux this is '/usr/share/locale'.
I tested this again using python and it produces the correct result:
# cat test2.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
from gettext import *
### no previous bindtextdomain call in effect
print bindtextdomain("messages",None);
# python test2.py
/usr/share/locale
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