On 24.05.2011 11:11, Johan Brichau wrote:
Hi guys,
What is the future of the Gettext package in the PharoNonCorePackages
repository?
Is the intention to include it in Pharo core? Should that package become a
separate project? Something else?
I am asking this because I am using it for internationalization support in our
Seaside apps (together with the Gettext-Seaside package by Philippe Marschall).
Hence, I created a port of the relevant parts to GemStone, following the "develop in
Pharo, deploy in GemStone" philosophy.
Now, the ported package is a complete duplicate + appropriate changes, but it's
better if we create a common package and separate the platform-specific parts
out.
But I would not want to interfere with anyone's plans, specifically Hilaire
Fernandes' plans, probably (who seems to be the author of the package).
So, I would like to get in touch with the stakeholders of the package and
discuss where it's going.
cheers
Johan
Hilaire is the major stakeholder yes.
I had a cursory glance at the code when helping with the file-reading
portion in Pharo, for a split aimed at cross-platform, I think 3
packages would be good:
1 ) Core - Providing the translation functionality itself, and parsing
of a gettext stream.
2) In/Out - Platform-specific methods to provide streams to read from.
3) System Integration - Detecting locale to use, hooking into/ replacing
existing translation engines etc.
1 should be able to do cross-platform.
2 should either have dialect-specific implementation, or a default
implementation using Grease.
3 should be optional, and probably can't be provided only using Grease,
so needs dialect-specific version.
I'm not up to speed on what Grease offers atm though, so this might be
wrong :)
For platforms where you'd want to use it with seaside, I assume 1 + 2
would be enough?
And you'd rarely need a dialect-specific implementation of 2, since
Seaside depends on Grease anyways?
In any case, I'd vote for moving it out of NonCore and into it's own,
proper repository :)
Cheers,
Henry
