[Zip] Initial Mail after ZIP revival at EuroZope Conference

[Garikoitz Araolaza]

At 17:10 17/07/01, you wrote:
>FOR ALL OTHER READERS: PLEASE COMMENT ON THESE MAILS TOO, SINCE THEIR 
>RESULT WILL INFLUENCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JOINT INTERNATIONALIZATION 
>TOOL GREATLY!!!

I don't think so.

I thought that we agreed in Berlin that the main question was to try to 
find a Requirements list for Zope to be Localisable.

ZBabel and Localizer are much more advanced solutions than what we had 
before (zzLocale and the others) but it's still a patching on Zope. I think 
that I18N support should come in the Zope core and DC will agree if we get 
to explain it enough clear.

Then, what do we need?

- Much discussion about what does Zope need to be fully Localisable. But 
don't forget that we should profit the work and experience of other 
software developements ( We are not discovering anything. The software 
industry and the Free Software community is dealing with those problems for 
many many years. )

- I don't think that we need convergence of solutions NOW. I think each of 
the approaches should follow his way and see the results after a bit of 
testing. We should try, test and think about each solution before starting 
to discuss. As far as I know Localizer 0.5 with Localizable Content and 
Properties are available only for a couple of hours...

So... let's discuss about what does Zope need to be a fully multilingual 
application.


Gari


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