Re: lang and conf synthesis

>> Horrible, it's like a preparser. You might as well keep phing and 
>> builds, at least that isn't confusing as hell. I would _far_and_away_ 
>> prefer proper code requesting translations of a string id or an 
>> actual gettext-like string to that. It feels like a hack.
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> :(
>
> Can you explain how caching php files can work then, and when the 
> string replacement should occur ?

I wouldn't cache PHP files at all except for the normal bytecode caches 
liker turckMM. Instead I would focus on caching _output_ automatically 
all over the place.

Use smarty to check if a page render is even necessary, after a bit of 
use on the server - it won't be. At the very least a whole chunk of the 
page can be cached and that saves all those string lookups.

_a