On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't you also need: > > #@deprecated "because we stopped this application in release 1.12.2" > > #@deprecated "new.key.name: either this or that or that" > > ? > > I'm afraid your syntax is a bit too tiny. > I'm definitely encouraging the use of deprecation in i18n messages. > Is there or will there be a server to monitor the use of deprecation, and/or > analyze it so that they can be removed by proper changes inside the code?? > This would be very valuable!
Right now I'm only interested in indicating the new name of the key and that's my only need in a short term. It's very easy to add later other informations like: #@deprecated new.key.name #@since 3.4 old.key.name=Default translation but I would prefer to do it one by one. > > paul > > Le 18 janv. 2012 à 17:50, Thomas Mortagne a écrit : > >> Hi devs, >> >> Right now renaming a key is a pain if we don't want to loose the >> existing translations associated to it. Basically it require to rename >> the key in all languages and reimport all of them on l10n.xwiki.org. >> >> We already have a section in the translation file to indicate which >> translations are deprecated. The idea is to indicate what is the new >> name of a deprecated translation key directly in the translation file >> so that l10n.xwiki.org can automatically copy the translation to the >> new key when it find a new deprecated key while importing default >> translation file. >> >> For that we need to decide a syntax to indicate what is the new name of the >> key. >> >> I propose to do something similar to java and indicate it in a comment >> like the following: >> >> new.key.name=Default translation >> >> #@deprecated new.key.name >> old.key.name=Default translation >> >> Here are some other alternatives to "deprecated": >> >> * replacedBy >> * new >> >> others ? >> >> Here is my +1 for "deprecated", more intuitive for Java developers and >> it's clear it's a deprecated translation key. >> >> Thanks, >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
