[asterisk-dev] Sound path

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 04:07:48PM -0000, Nick Lewis wrote:
> >But making it search under both astvarlibdir and astdatadir is quite
> >complicated.
> 
> No searching. GetText returns one specific absolute filename. GetText
> provides all the language fallback mechanisms. No need to reinvent the
> wheel

The specific problem, from a message up the thread:

| It doesn't, however, solve the problem of conforming to the File
| Hierarchy Standard. System-provided files should be in /usr/share and
| should be read only, whereas customized sound files (e.g. files written
| by Asterisk) should be in /var. It would be very handy if Asterisk could
| handle lookup in multiple directory hierarchies.

For small systems it helps having a read-only /usr . Thus you put most
of the sound files at /usr/share/asterisk/sounds and make astdatadir
/usr/share/asterisk .

Anyway, what would using gettext buy you beyond what is already
implemented today?

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