Re: [Bodington-developers] i18n res updated : fixed

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

Peter Crowther wrote:
>>From: bod...@li... 
>>I think the fact that templates for different languages get 
>>compiled is 
>>inherently duff. Conceptually, there should be one single 
>>generic set of 
>>templates that dynamically pull in the resource bundles at run-time.
> 
> 
> I thought that when I first saw the design, but have since moved to the
> opposite point of view.  One of the reasons for compiling templates in
> the first place is efficiency, and we have a *lot* of templaces given
> the number of frames and framesets in Bod.  I've come round to the view
> that it probably makes sense* to remove the calls to the property
> retrieval functions from the execution path of each page display.

So are we going to distribute Bodington precompiled for all the 
available languages? If so the size of the distribution will become huge 
(compiled versions of english are 5.5MB on my machine). If not then we 
are changing Bodington so that it is no longer possible to deploy on a 
machine without a JDK.

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