Re: Country specific add-on package

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
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On Aug 25, 2004, at 22:59, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> With the forthcoming release 1.0, I thought it is perhaps time to have 
> some extra packages with data specific to the country where OGo is 
> installed.

Isn't this already done for language packs?

> For example, If OGo will be installed in a US company, the "US-extra" 
> package can contain data specific to US holidays such as 4th of July 
> and others US-only holidays.

For non-English things this could be part of the language pack.

> New  time zones names and data are also country-specific.

No. Timezone names are not country specific, the timezone database is 
managed by some organisation, don't remember the name.

> I thought to have this data as extra package because it will let us 
> have a lean "core" OGO and the US-extra will be installed atop on a 
> separate download.

English.lproj is required as a fallback for almost anything, so this 
needs to be included in any case.

> Contents for these extra packages can be provided and managed by 
> community coordinators.

Of course.

Greets,
   Helge
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