Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-17 Thread Randolph Chung
> I believe I fixed all resulting breakage a few days ago, with a global > s/debconf_input/my_debconf_input/. thanks richard, then i'm not going to touch them... randolph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Randolph Chung | btw3, istr some talk about implementing a http based db backend. is that | available some place? sorry if i missed this on the list, i haven't been | following d-boot too closely. so far, it only exists in my mind, and if I hadn't been trying to track down that busybox console

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-17 Thread Richard Hirst
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:09:16PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > sorry for the late reply, i was out of town for a few days. > > > 1. The helper macros recently introduced do break several packages > > under debian-installer/tools/ which used to declare their own > > debconf_input function. Mayb

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* (Denis Barbier) | Or uppercase these macros to prevent name clashes. But IMO they are | useless and could be removed. if an application defines macros and functions into another application's name space, it should not be confused when those are later used by the application. -- Tollef Fog H

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-17 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:09:16PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > sorry for the late reply, i was out of town for a few days. Sorry for having already committed most of this stuff, it was needed to make language selection work with the new languagechooser package. > > 1. The helper macros recentl

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-17 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:03:20AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Randolph Chung] > > i thought you asked for them? :-) > > > > unless i hear otherwise i'll commit a patch tomorrow to wrap them inside > > a #ifdef WITH_DEBCONF_HELPER_MACROS or something like that. > > I would rather not hav

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Randolph Chung] > i thought you asked for them? :-) > > unless i hear otherwise i'll commit a patch tomorrow to wrap them inside > a #ifdef WITH_DEBCONF_HELPER_MACROS or something like that. I would rather not have such #ifdefs. It is less confusing to use a library header file if the content i

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-16 Thread Randolph Chung
sorry for the late reply, i was out of town for a few days. > 1. The helper macros recently introduced do break several packages > under debian-installer/tools/ which used to declare their own > debconf_input function. Maybe we could remove these macros, I > wonder whether they are that useful.

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:33:39PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: [...] > It is different with C files; the framework is in, and we can use dcgettext > in source files. But GNU libc requires that locale is fully installed > before displaying a message for that language. For instance, glibc checks >

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:56:55PM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote: > ons 2002-12-11 klockan 16.07 skrev Denis Barbier: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:45:45AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > [...] > > > 3. May I set a _ macro in frontend.h in order to start i18n of > > > frontends? As libdiscover alre

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Sjögren
ons 2002-12-11 klockan 16.07 skrev Denis Barbier: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:45:45AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > [...] > > 3. May I set a _ macro in frontend.h in order to start i18n of > > frontends? As libdiscover already calls dcgettext, I would like to > > set it to > >#define _(x) dcg

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:45:45AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: [...] > 3. May I set a _ macro in frontend.h in order to start i18n of > frontends? As libdiscover already calls dcgettext, I would like to > set it to >#define _(x) dcgettext("cdebconf", (x), LC_MESSAGES) [...] An alternative is

[cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

2002-12-10 Thread Denis Barbier
Hi, here are some unrelated issues about cdebconf. 1. The helper macros recently introduced do break several packages under debian-installer/tools/ which used to declare their own debconf_input function. Maybe we could remove these macros, I wonder whether they are that useful. 2. The attached