Jonas von Malottki wrote:
> Hi Sergiu,
> 
> sorry to bother, but I noticed that the Interface-file changed. Thus the 
>   patch will not apply cleanly. Are you going to apply this patch?
> 
> Since nobody really objected the MessageFormat I guess it is accepted? 
> If it helps I can resubmit a patch using MessageFormat!/?
> 

If you can resubmit a patch, that would be perfect, it would save me
some time thus it will be quickly applied.

Thank you.

> 
> Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> I'd like to apply http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2667 , but one 
>> thing I'd like to change is the format of the log messages. The current 
>> patch uses String.format, but I prefer MessageFormat, as it is more 
>> expressive, and it is already used by the localization tool.
>>
>> So:
>> 1. We use String.format, because:
>> - it is "simpler" (some say)
>> - it is familiar to C/C++ programmers
>> - it is a bit more customizable at the finer level
>> - the code is already written
>>
>> 2. We use MessageFormat, because:
>> - it is already used for localization strings
>> - it is more expressive (I really like the "choice" format)
>> - it is apparently less customizable, but it uses good defaults (I'd 
>> rather specify that I want a "long" date format than a "DD MMMM HH:mm:ss 
>> z" format)
>> - the changes are minimal
>> - I for one prefer this syntax, rather than the old printf one.
>>
>> My +1 for option 2.


-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
_______________________________________________
devs mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

Reply via email to