Re: more i18n/l10n issues

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: more i18n/l10n issues
Date: 2003-09-30 12:25:09
Message-ID: 200309301225.h8UCP9q21054@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan writes:
>
> > I have been wondering if moving to XML for config files might be a good
> > idea - and if there are going to be GUIs that write them that gives some
> > more impetus to the idea.
>
> What I would like to see done is keeping the GUC data, that is, the name,
> the properties, and the description, in some centralized store and
> generate code and documentation from that. It could be done with XML,
> SGML, m4 -- I don't care.

Yes, the use of SGML files by psql help is brilliant.

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