----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Action List - Volunteers Needed
> On 10 Dec 2001, Magesh Umasankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do we solve the messages out-of-sync problem in > > the Oepn-Source world? > > (1) Don't accept any submissions with hard-coded (i.e. not loaded from > resources) messages. > > (2) Don't accept any submission without English messages. > > (3) Default to an English locale if a message cannot be found in the > current locale. > > All this won't guarantee that we are never running out-of-sync, but it > will guarantee that you will always get an error message (unlike Sun's > ProjectX XML parser that would issue messages like "P76" in a German > locale 8-). > > We should only guarantee that Ant messages are completely localized > for (US?) English locales. Chances for German and French are quite > good as well (judging from the number of users who speak these > languages, not because of Stephane or me), but we shouldn't raise > expectations we cannot meet. how will the unit tests be handled? All those expectException() calls? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
