Re: [PATCH] locale: Make the file name of the locale archive configurable

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 6/7/19 6:42 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> 7.06.2019 02:22 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 6/6/19 6:12 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > What about a forward/backward compatible binary format of the locale
> > > archive?  The format should describe what data it provides, what are
> > > the offsets and sizes of the records etc. so an executable would be
> > > even able to support the future archive formats or at least would be
> > > able to tell that it cannot support the format for good reasons.
> >
> > We could do this quite easily.
> >
> > We just need a header and an ABI version field.
>
> This will just prevent the executables from using an incompatible locale
> archive rather than enable them to use any format.  Which is of course
> still better than allowing any executable to use any locale archive
> and let it fail silently (or work correctly if we are lucky).  It is
> OK if you think this is sufficient.

I think this is sufficient first step.

A subsequent step is obviously to make an extensible binary format, but
that is another and orthogonal problem.

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Cheers,
Carlos.