Re: [TurboGears] Re: FormEncode i18n translation integration in TurboGears

Gregor Horvath wrote:
> Jorge Godoy schrieb:
>> Ian Bicking <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>
>>> I'm wondering how the releases should work.  An update to a translation 
>>> doesn't really warrant a new software release, and releases of 
>>> FormEncode are otherwise going to be uncommon.  Should the translations 
>>> be shipped as separate packages (e.g., formencode.lang.de)?  It's 
>>> potentially a lot of packages, but that might be fine.  They can be 
>>> released and updated on their own schedule then.  Does that sound feasible?
>>
>> If there aren't that many changes to messages -- i.e., FormEncode's code
>> should change more than its messages --, then I don't see a reason for
>> separating things.

I don't expect this to be the case.  FormEncode's code is not updated 
much, and releases are not frequent.  I don't want to change that.  You 
shouldn't want that either -- a nice stable and boring FormEncode means 
one less thing you have to worry about tracking.

So I feel pretty confident that translations will substantially increase 
the number of FormEncode releases.  Of course, if the code isn't 
changing then getting an updated FormEncode isn't really a problem 
either I suppose.  Only if people didn't want to upgrade FormEncode 
would this be a problem, and that shouldn't be a problem if I don't make 
backward-incompatible changes in FormEncode (and no such changes are 
planned).

> ACK.
> 
> At the moment I don't see any differences to normal Formencode
> development. I am a big believer in KISS. So I'd prefer to keep it
> simple. All is in trunk and released together. If this turns out to be
> inappropriate because language development is more dynamic than normal
> development than we can always change this.

I do expect it to be, but maybe that's not a problem.  OTOH, making a 
release of a subpackage doesn't need to be hard either, just "python 
setup.py svntag --version=whatever-next --next-version=whatever-next+1; 
cd ../formencode.lang.de-whatever-next; python setup.py register sdist 
bdist_egg upload".

-- 
Ian Bicking | [email protected] | http://blog.ianbicking.org

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