From: Michael Sweet <mike@easysw.com>
To: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net>
Cc: Wendy Phillips <wendyp@sun.com>,
Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs@Sun.COM>,
"McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>,
printing-architecture <printing-architecture@freestandards.org>
Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Notes of today's telecon
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:52:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4477404C.7070909@easysw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44773DF8.9010802@gmx.net>
Till Kamppeter wrote:
> McDonald, Ira wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm going to support Michael's point here. The prevailing
>> usage in the localization industry and in most file systems
>> is to use language tag directories immediately _before_ the
>> terminal filename in a path.
>>
>
> So you suggest
>
> /usr/share/ppd/foomatic/HP/en/HP-LaserJet_4050-ljet4-en.ppd
> /usr/share/ppd/foomatic/HP/en/HP-LaserJet_4050-pxlmono-en.ppd
> /usr/share/ppd/foomatic/HP/en/HP-LaserJet_4050-hpijs-en.ppd
> /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint/HP/en/HP-LaserJet_4050-standard-en.ppd
> /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint/HP/en/HP-LaserJet_4050-simplified-en.ppd
> /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint/HP/de/HP-LaserJet_4050-simplified-de.ppd
>
> Is this what you mean?
I'd actually suggest having the language first, e.g.:
/usr/share/ppd/gutenprint/de/HP/HP-LaserJet_4050-simplified-de.ppd
> Having the language directory as the last level makes it also easier to
> install (and also to uninstall) selected languages.
> ...
Putting the language first makes this trivial; burying it a few
levels deep makes things more difficult, which is why we (and Apple)
make it first...
--
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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software http://www.easysw.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-26 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-26 16:59 [Printing-architecture] Notes of today's telecon McDonald, Ira
2006-05-26 17:42 ` Till Kamppeter
2006-05-26 17:52 ` Michael Sweet [this message]
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2006-05-29 18:30 McDonald, Ira
2006-05-26 14:10 Petrie, Glen
2006-05-25 22:31 Norm Jacobs
2006-05-26 0:18 ` Till Kamppeter
2006-05-26 14:43 ` Michael Sweet
2006-05-25 14:57 McDonald, Ira
2006-05-24 22:51 Till Kamppeter
2006-05-25 14:28 ` Till Kamppeter
[not found] ` <44750622.2050005@sun.com>
2006-05-25 14:32 ` Till Kamppeter
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