[Zope-Coders] Proposal: put i18n into 2.6

[Casey Duncan]

I believe the plan is for 2.7 and 2.6 to come out very close together. 2.=
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will require Python 2.2.x, whereas 2.6 still runs on 2.1.x. Since tal i18=
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comes from Zope 3, it requires Python2.2.

Jim's idea is that 2.7 will not differ much feature-wise from 2.6, except=
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a couple of things backported from Zope 3 (tal i18n being one of them). T=
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major difference will be the Python version supported.

If this proves true, the effort to get tal i18n in Zope 2.6 wouldn't be=20
fruitful, unless you were bound to Python 2.1.x for some other reason.

At the very least the time between 2.6 and 2.7 will be *much* less then f=
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2.5 to 2.6.

-Casey

On Friday 13 September 2002 09:04 am, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> I'm aware that this probably is going to get shot down, but I feel it i=
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> important:
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> I'd like to propose including the _current_ 2.7 TAL+ZPT i18n code into
> 2.6 right now (before the 2.6 beta), with the following changes:
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>  - do not provide any translation service by default and leave that to
>    third party products for now,
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>  - provide a very simple framework (=E0 la a simple
>    registerTranslationService) for third party products to plug in thei=
r
>    translation service.
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> The rationale for that proposal is:
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>  - the code in 2.7 is functional enough (I'm using it in a manner
>    described above) and implements most of the spec,
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>  - there is (and there has been for a long time) a _huge_ need for i18n
>    in core Zope, why wait when we have something that works,
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>  - it doesn't impact people not using i18n tags at all,
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>  - people using i18n tags but without an external translation service
>    wouldn't see any change from current 2.6.
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> Risks:
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>  - speed hit in the TAL code itself (negligible I believe)
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>  - bugs in the current i18n code
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> I'm volunteering to do the small code integration needed during the
> weekend on a branch off Zope-2_6-branch.
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> Florent
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> Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France)
> +33 1 40 33 79 87  http://nuxeo.com  mailto:fg@nuxeo.com
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