Re: [Bodington-developers] Resource localisation code - in or out?

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
>> In its current state I don't think it is ready to go into a released 
>> version
> 
> what sort of probs do you see with it Mathew? I can't really see how it 
> can be improved without radically altering the db schema.

How would you implement it if you were to change the DB schema?

 > As it is, the
> only alteration is the on-the-fly creation of language specific 
> big_strings tables.

I see the synchronization problems between languages when one language 
changes.

The problems might occur with some resources that use big strings for 
user data.

> There was talk earlier of pulling all strings out of big_strings for 
> mass translation to save time but that can't happen now as big_strings 
> is a dump for all strings, not just system ones.

I wasn't aware of this. Did you imagine this being done after a clean 
install?

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