[Zip] Initial Mail after ZIP revival at EuroZope Conference

[Stephan Richter]

>Yep, I had the same problem and found the solution in the Fishbowl:
>
>   http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/GlobalGetRequest
>
>It would be nice to have this feature in the core, then I could remove
>the patch from the Localizer. Andreas, could you do something to get this
>into?

Yes, that is the proposal I was talking about. The guy who did all of this 
helped me to get some of the things right. But it really does not work 
without this patch. I was going to polish the Proposal again and submit it 
to Ken or Brian...

>But, where ZBabel Towers live? in the ZODB?

Right now I have a ZODB and SQL implementation. There is a general API for 
the ZBabel Tower now, so that File System based or even a XML Babel Tower 
should be no problem anymore.

>Translations for text that lives in the file system must be in the file
>system too.
>
>And it has not too much sense to store this kind of text in message
>catalogs, since these texts are usually too much long to be reusable.

Well, most of the file system based DTML documents actually contain very 
little translatable information. On the other hand, if something like that 
goes into the Zope core, we should think about having all DTML in the ZODB 
in anyway. It looks clumsy to me that you have to store some DTML in the FS 
and the rest in the ZODB...

I admit that there are things missing in the ZBabel Tower, but they are 
independent of the storage issues:
- Garbage Collection
- Better export/import filters (for example: XML and .pot files)
- Grouping of phrases (this way you can distribute modules like Calendar-, 
AddressBook-, JobDescriptions-, ... Translations)


Regards,
Stephan

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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management