Conclusion:
Advantages:
- can attract more users
- can help people having problems with English to write better code, as
they now have documentation in their own language
Disadvantages:
- requires effort to keep translations consistent
- requires adaptation of help system
- people understanding English might tend to still use that version
instead of the one translated to their native language
- people might spent time and effort on translating documentation instead
of improving Laz ;)
You can see that its better to have the Help in native languages at the
wiki.
The Tarnslations goes on very well if the users would see this like you then
nothing would be translated in the wiki.
It would be very nice if people could edit documentation in a convenient
way such as a wiki; this is an improvement over sending .xml help file
patches. On the other hand it is also important that the documentation is
correct and coherent, particularly in its role as a 'contract'. Merging
into the documentation changes that can be made by just anybody, might
need more checking.
I think the fcl,rtl,lcl documentation schould stay in the xml files but an
general help and reference and ide help schould
stay in the wiki and automatically merged in the nigthy builds at example
and in the installations.
Christian
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