A wise old hermit known only as Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> once said:
> There is an innate problem/feature when it comes to tools like XDoclet. > It is open-source, which means it is (for the most part) developed in > people's > spare time for which they do not get any reimbursement. So if we force > new > additions to the code to come with docs in multiple-languages then > people > will either develop the additions they need and not share them, or not > develop them at all. Nobody's suggesting we *force* people to produce docs in multiple languages. The only impact it has on people's additions is that they ought to use the Translator class' facilities instead of hard coding strings, so that *others* can come along later and localise it to their own language if they want it. And even that isn't essential, as we can always refactor things to use it once it's submitted (though it's obviously quicker if it's done that way to start with). > Secondly, who is going to produce these additional docs > in secondary languages? Most people speak one or two languages at best > (most > only one), and there are enough users of XDoclet to make it believable > that > we would need the docs in 5 or more languages to make everyone happy. Those that need/want it enough would write it. If they're nice people, they'll upload the results into JIRA so we can put it up on sourceforge for anyone else who wants it to download. The point of the discussion, however, was whether or not we should even be bothering to give them the chance to do so... > The reality is, if you want a product with multi-lingual support that is > up-to-date and synchronized with the English version, go BUY some > massively over-priced Rational product instead! ... for which IBM will say a big thank you. http://www.rational.com/news/press/pr_view.jsp?ID=8372 But we digress... Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ xdoclet-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user
