Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 56648 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 20:43:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Dec 2001 20:43:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 6404 invoked by uid 97); 10 Dec 2001 20:43:15 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 6367 invoked by uid 97); 10 Dec 2001 20:43:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 6317 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 20:43:14 -0000 Message-Id: <200112102043.fBAKhBO19624@mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Peter Donald To: "Ant Developers List" Subject: Re: Action List - Volunteers Needed Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:40:03 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20011210200821.28153.qmail@mailFA6.rediffmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20011210200821.28153.qmail@mailFA6.rediffmail.com> X-Wisdom-Cookie: . MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:08, Magesh Umasankar wrote: > From: "Peter Donald" > > > Almost none from our users but I have wanted it for > > ages. Part of the reason is to just remove messages > > from the code because programmers tend to have bad > > english and pulling it out makes it easier for non- > > programmers to correct us ;) > > How do we solve the messages out-of-sync problem in > the Oepn-Source world? It would take somebody real > committed and knowledgeable in that language to catch > each message inserted on a daily basis and translate it - > or maybe before every release at least. In a closed source product (my only real i18n'ed project yet) we sent a diff of changes in resource files to the translator a week before release. It worked relatively well ... but we ended up dropping support for other languages anyways so ... ;) > If pulling away the messages to a resource bundle is > the only real need right now, must we commit to > i18n? I am not trying to say we don't need i18n, btw. small steps at a time are good. -- Cheers, Pete When a stupid man is doing something he's ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: