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

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

Are we not biting off too much here for 2.6?  We're on a tight timescale
already?? 

adam

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: bod...@li... [mailto:bodington-
| dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Alistair Young
| Sent: 11 May 2005 11:30
| To: Matthew Buckett
| Cc: Bodington Developers
| Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Resource localisation code - in or
| out?
| 
| > 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. As it is, the
| only alteration is the on-the-fly creation of language specific
| big_strings tables.
| 
| 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.
| 
| Alistair
| 
| 
| On 11 May 2005, at 10:57, Matthew Buckett wrote:
| 
| > Alistair Young wrote:
| >> ok folks, vote time again.
| >> org.bodington.i18n handles template localisation, though it also
| >> handles
| >> Resource localisation too.
| >> There's unease about Resource localisation, so should the code come
| >> out,
| >> or stay and allow people who want to translate Resources to do so?
| >
| > If you think you can improve it then I'm not completely against it in
| > the short term.
| >
| >> Removing it won't affect template localisation.
| >
| > Cool.
| >
| >> i18n was always going to be a pig to retrofit and the tools aren't
| >> covered
| >> by it. The most important one I can think of is the questionnaire
| >> tool,
| >> which can't be localised.
| >
| > I wonder if this might be the tip of the iceberg? The messaging room
| > also uses BigStrings to store the posted messages.
| >
| >> The obvious gain from removing it is the db schema stays the same. The
| >> loss is you can't localise Resources. This could lead to the case
| >> where a
| >> help building, for instance, has many physically separate localised
| >> instances, rather than just one.
| >
| > My concern is that if it went into a release we would then have to
| > support it in future versions.
| >
| >> Resource 1i8n code - in or out?
| >
| > -1
| >
| > Although I am happy for it to stay in while it is worked on and
| > improved. In its current state I don't think it is ready to go into a
| > released version.
| >
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