[haiku-commits] Re: r37323 - in haiku/trunk: build/jam headers/os/locale src/kits/locale src/preferences/locale

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:44:31 +0200

On 2010-07-04 at 12:58:27 [+0200], Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Have you considered how language runtimes are supposed to handle
> this .a file? E.g. Python, Mono, Java, ...
> Should that be linked into the runtime once, independent of the
> application to be localized? P/invoking a static library from managed
> code is impossible in Mono, I fear, without loading a native dynamic
> library linked to the static one. And needing a JNI library just to
> localize an otherwise pure Java application would seem odd, too.

Besides that I guess that those languages come with there own localization 
mechanism anyway -- at least Java does -- liblocale.so  does not dependent 
on the static library in any way.

CU, Ingo

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