> -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I don't think there is a skilled developer or build engineer on > > earth that can achieve his job without having to use english. > > This might be true, but if Ant should be used in InstallShield type > apps - as requested somewhere else - Ant gets exposed to a whole bunch > of other people.
> I've been working together with people in the Norwegian and Brazilian > subsidiaries of our main customer, trying to install our software. Met > a lot of funny situations, including a two man team where one doesn't > speak English but German and the other one speaks English but not > German in Brazil - no I don't speak Portuguese. > I don't think i18n is a first class goal for Ant per se, but it would > become quite difficult to add support for it later - you better design > for it from the beginning. Acceptable point. It just really depends what you want to internationalize and to which level. What has to be internationalized in Ant ? Could you give some examples since you have encountered some problems in this area ? This is somewhat important because personnaly I have seen a few times lots of efforts put into an internationalizable things that later was not really needing such an internationalization effort... this is why I am somewhat cautious here. Well of course it just depends on what Ant goal is too. -- St�phane Bailliez Software Engineer, Paris - France iMediation - http://www.imediation.com Disclaimer: All the opinions expressed above are mine and not those from my company.
