Re: [PATCH] use SVN_LOCALE_PATH environment variable

Kouhei Sutou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To support message localization on Windows, nls.c uses relative path from
> .exe file. This works well with svn.exe, svnserve.exe and so on but not
> with
> bindings.
>
> I want the Ruby bindings user on Windows to copy only ext/ and lib/
> directories into a directory which is included in LOAD_PATH to install the
> Ruby bindings. (ext/ includes *.dll and lib/ includes *.rb.) Now, the Ruby
> bindings user needs to copy locale/ directory into parent directory of
> ruby.exe. But some user may not have authority to do that.
>
> If message directory can be specified by an environment variable, this
> problem
> can be solved by bindings modify the environment variable. I'll attach a
> patch
> to show my idea.

This has been filed as issue #2879.

-Hyrum