Tracking CLDR version in collation definitions

Thomas Munro munro at ip9.org
Mon Sep 10 00:47:00 UTC 2018


On 9 September 2018 at 05:28, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 07:22:22AM -0700, yuripv wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I think this makes perfect sense, yes, and not aware of any other way of
>> having the data version information.
>>
>> There are some nits in the man page changes, but that can of course be taken
>> care of during review.
>
> At least, the new symbols must not go into the FBSD_1.3 namespace, but
> into the current namespace of the HEAD at the tome of commit.  I believe
> it will be FBSD_1.6 when the patch has a chance to hit the tree.

Thanks, I'll bear that in mind for the next revision.

> I also think that more specific name, indicating that this is a FreeBSD
> unique function, should be used.

Yeah, I was wondering about that.  This may sound a bit too ambitious,
but my plan is to produce a working version in a real operating
system, and then make a proposal the Austin Group for a future POSIX
revision.


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