From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MKDOU-0006KN-88 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:31:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKDOS-0006Ix-Mi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:31:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKDON-0006DG-LH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:31:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38167 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKDON-0006D4-Gz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:31:07 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:18772) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKDON-0006FJ-3g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:31:07 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay2.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.112]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 26 Jun 2009 11:31:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay2.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D446D34C6D for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20090626124721.GA12862@thorin> References: <20090618205607.GA20132@pina.cat> <20090619103747.GC19777@thorin> <20090621110757.GB27710@thorin> <20090621172236.GA23270@pina.cat> <20090621184230.GA21495@thorin> <1245611699.4250.19.camel@mj> <20090625212047.GA27921@pina.cat> <1245985742.23442.249.camel@mj> <20090626124721.GA12862@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:31:04 -0400 Message-Id: <1246030264.1036.13.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 (2.26.2-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Fw: gettext support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:31:13 -0000 On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 14:47 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:09:02PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > My main concern is the size of the files we install in /boot/grub. It's > > approaching one megabyte already, > > We don't need to do that just because of OFW. I think the approach of > installing /boot/grub/ to that tiny filesystem is just wrong (yes, this > is my fault ;-)). We could just install core.img there and put > /boot/grub/ in the standard filesystem. Yes, I think we'll need to rewrite grub-install to use hfsutils, perhaps optionally. > > But installing all *.mo files to /boot/grub would be an overkill in many > > cases. I think copying the file for the current language should be > > enough. The same language should be specified in grub.cfg when it's > > generated. > > Yes. We can only support one language anyway (the system-wide language, > which is what grub-mkconfig will use when generating strings for grub.cfg). > > Also, if *.mo files contain plain text, compression would work well on > them. They could be gzipped. Good point. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin