Re: Plone 2.5 and zope.i18n

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 19:10 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 2010/10/24 Roché Compaan <[email protected]>:
> > Connexions is still stuck on Plone 2.5 and although migration to Plone 4
> > is on the cards, i18n is likely to happen before this. zope.i18n and
> > zope.i18nmessageid was already part of Zope2 by then through Five, so it
> > seems that we can create a translations package that uses zope.i18n's
> > locales rather than PlacelessTranslationService. Am I being over
> > optimistic or is it safe to use zope.i18n and be somewhat future proof?
> 
> I think you are too optimistic. We have over time adjusted a fair deal
> of the logic in Five's translation service,
> PlacelessTranslationService and Plone to make it possible to use
> zope.i18n locales directories. All of these bits are dependent on each
> other. Unless you backport and monkey patch a good deal of the logic,
> you won't be able to use the newer bits.
> 
> It's only with Plone 4 that you can really use locales directories for
> everything and stop worrying.

Thanks for the feedback Hanno. This might make for a strong case to
migrate to Plone 4 before one attempts internationalization.

-- 
Roché Compaan
Upfront Systems                   http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za


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