Re: What is (or should be) the Mac OS X baseline for OOo 2.0?

Tino Rachui - Sun Germany - Development - Software Engineer <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:50:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.porting
Organization StarOffice / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi James,

thanks for your explanation but I understood the problem already ;-)
My problem is and that's why I asked that an API for workaround the
problem is only available beginning with Mac OS X 10.3 
(CFLocaleCreateCanonicalLocaleIdentifierFromString).

Kind regards,
Tino

James McKenzie wrote:
> Tino Rachui wrote:
> 
>> Has been decided already what should be the Mac OS X baseline (10.2, 
>> 10.3??) for OOo2.0? Among other things the answer is especially 
>> interessting to me in order to decide which solution to choose for
>> #i54337. I don't want to bother the audience with all the details here.
> 
> 
> The problem is not which baseline to use, although I would think that it 
> should be 10.3, but whether the user started with 10.1 and then upgraded 
> to 10.2/3.  This causes MacOSX to send the wrong value for the system's 
> language setting.  Under 10.1, if I were using English (American) the 
> result would be English.  Under 10.2/3/4 the result should be en_US, but 
> if you start with 10.1 the result will not change.  Thus, if you want to 
> query a system that was upgraded, you have to check for both English and 
> en_US.  Otherwise, you will get an invalid language value found when 
> installing OOo 2.0.
> And as far as I know, the baseline version for OOo 2.0 is 10.3.  OOo 2.0 
> has problems building on 10.2, from what I remember going through the IZ.

> 
> James McKenzie
> 
> 
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