On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:20:06 +0100, Fil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Very cool. I've also heard requests to reduce the tarball size by >> > separating the languages out into separate downloads. Does anybody >> > think that's worth doing? >> >> This has also been checked in. I'm going to try hack the release script >> to separate the languages from the main tarball. > > I personnally dissent from this idea; one great strength of free > software is > its internationalization open to everyone both in participating to > translations and using them. Making them "optional" is making the > software > weaker. > > If the need for smaller tarballs is real (which I doubt, given the > bandwidth > and diskspace you need to run Mailman :-) ), one option could be, on the > contrary, to have a seperate download link for people who > *want* a mono-lingual (supposedly US-English?) Mailman. >
May I suggest a zero-lingual base version? The only way to make software truly language independent is to avoid the concept of a "default language". If everybody has to get a language file, developers will be forced to think about localization issues. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
