[Gmailagent-devel] Re: gvr: Removal of language support in Breezy

[Stas Z <sta...@gm...>]

On 9/28/05, Stefan Potyra <da...@po...> wrote:


> I just read over your mail and the mailing list and would like to give so=
me
> further thoughts on language support:
>
> If language support is enabled,
> (1) files from worldbuilder cannot be loaded
> (2) keywords aren't highlighted.
> (3) language/world files aren't exchangable
> (4) the package examples are mostly in english, which cannot be used then
>
> You've discussed (3) quite long on the mailing list, and I'd rate this as=
 a
> wishlist bug.
Indeed, we started to work on that. Don't know when it's ready.

> I'd rate (4) a little bit higher, as I tend to look at examples at first,=
 if I
> want to get started with something. However this could be solved easily b=
y
> including more localized examples in the package.
Your right, I will try to translate some of the examples.

> For (2) I'd just say that this is a minor bug at most.
That's already fixed in CVS.

> So the real reason to drop language support would be (1).
>
> However after giving this a second thought I am not sure if dropping lang=
uage
> support has been a mistake. Does the benefit of beeing able to use the
> worldbuilder outweigh language support?
No, it doesn't and I consider (1) to be a bug which should be fixed asap.
That also the reason I suggested that you left the language support
out, considering
it's going into a stable release soon. (Breezy)

> To put it short, I'm really clueless if I did the right or wrong thing an=
d I'd
> appreciate to hear your opinion on this.
Al things consider, I would say you did right dropping some of the language
support.

> (Btw.: I'd really like to go in sync to debian again, as this will not on=
ly
> save us merging work in the future, but have a real maintainer with
> experience for this package care for it.)
I think you should contact Sergio personally and discuss this with him.
Besides, gvr is a learning tool, it's development was meant as a learning t=
ool,
it's used as a learning tool, perhaps it's packaging can also be a
learning tool :-)

Cheers,
Stas

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