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From: Jackey Yang <jackey.yang@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] GLI Missed set locale for non-English spoken users
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:38:59
Message-Id: 200504261938.40252.043936y@acadiau.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] GLI Missed set locale for non-English spoken users by Christopher Hotchkiss
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3 Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] GLI Missed set locale for non-English spoken
4 users
5 Date: Tuesday 26 April 2005 14:36
6 From: Jackey Yang <043936y@×××××××.ca>
7 To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
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9 On Tuesday 26 April 2005 11:36, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
10 > On 4/26/05, Jackey Yang <jackey.yang@×××××.com> wrote:
11 > > Hi Guys,
12 > > Introduce myself first, I am a core developer of Magic Linux (Chinese
13 > > Linux
14 > > Distribution). I use Gentoo all the time myself and enjoy it.
15 >
16 > Well welcome to the project. Just for your information if you want to get
17 > a hold of the developers quickly, it is best to use irc, server
18 > irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> on channel #gentoo-installer.
19 >
20 > 1. GLI seems missing a step to set locale and XIM input method, which is
21 >
22 > > very
23 > > important for non-English spoken people. Sure, you can set it yourself
24 > > like
25 > > what I did. But for GLI, is that suppose to be taken care automatically?
26 >
27 > The GLI is designed to have a frontend and a backend. Right now the only
28 > frontends we have written are done by english speaking developers. As such,
29 > to be honest there hasn't been much work done in the realm of translations.
30 > However before GLI is released to users, those layers will be added.
31
32 About translation, i think we can help. Magic Linux (MGC or ML) provides KDE
33 official zh_CN translation. I knew couple guys in Gentoo CJK group, should be
34 no problem to get CJK translation done. It looks that GLI is using pygtk, so
35 all CJK translation supposes to be saved using UTF8 (like official KDE). I do
36 not see any problem to support multiple languages in GLI.
37
38 > 2. Reiserfs ans XFT support. We developed our own installer called Magic
39 >
40 > > Installer(very close to GLI), which support Reiserfs (even Reiserfs4) and
41 > > XFT
42 > > for partition. Since I haven't spend much time on GLI, i would like to
43 > > try to
44 > > solve this problem for GLI in the future.
45 >
46 > We will welcome all the code contributions. For the partitioning code, be
47 > sure to talk with the developers on irc concerning that. It has gone
48 > through quite a few revisions recently.
49
50 Here is some features about MI:
51 1. Python, pytgk for GUI
52 2. Multiple languages support
53 3. Reiserfs, ext3 and xft support
54 4. MagicBooter supports to install system from local harddrive, network.
55 5. X configuration
56 6. SATA/SCSI support
57 7. Build iso automatically, you can tell it to split into CDRs (700M) or DVDR
58 (4.7G)
59 .....
60 Of course, MI is very picky and has some wired problems.
61 Since it is an RPM-based stuff, it must run on Fedora 1 (nothing else).
62 Pretty much, everytime we want to release a new version, have to build it on
63 Fedora 1. MagicBooter actually uses old uclibc (the one still has c
64 compile), so it does not support 2.6 kernel, which means install CD's kernel
65 is 2.4 only (this sux) .
66
67 You can always to access MI source code, if you can read in Chinese *^_^*
68 http://www.magiclinux.org/people/levindu/MagicInstaller/
69
70 P.S. MI snapshots can be downloaded from the following link, take a look
71 http://www.magiclinux.org/drupal/images/mi.tar.gz
72
73 > 3. Can GLI build an ISO (CD/DVD) automatically? MI use "scons" to do that.
74 >
75 > That is not the focus of the GLI project. Our job is to build the
76 > installer. Release engineering builds the livecds. However if you wish to
77 > build Gentoo Livecds, I would look into catalyst.
78 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/
79
80 OK, I will do that.
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