[Zope-CMF] keeping a customized CMF in sync with CVS-CMF

[Joachim Schmitz]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Tres Seaver wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>
> > I don't think, that this is different. Or let me put it
> > differently:
> >
> > The only straightforward idea to make a german (only) CMF I see
> > at the moment, would be to make a customized version of CMF.
> > Which is hard to keep in sync with CVS-CMF.
>
> In the future:
>
>  - You should be able to build an "I18N-aware" skin, which uses
>    something like gettext to indirect all "software" string
>    literals through a message catalog.  This skin *must* be
>    maintained separately;  the overhead of maintaining the
>    message catalog, and of indirecting through it, are costs
>    which not all users of the CMF will want to bear.
>
>  - The CMF itself should expose all of the mechanisms on which
>    the skins depend in I18N-friendly ways.  For instance, the
>    paths for redirects should be computed using the types or
>    actions tools;  the actions tool itself could probably be
>    extended to work with the message catalog to internationalize
>    all the action titles;  Message strings emitted from software
>    (errors, confirmations, etc.) should use an indirection
>    mechanism, etc.
>
> We aren't there, but we have significant inducement to get there,
> in the relatively near term.  One consequence of this design
> choice should be to decrease the significance of the "generic"
> skin (as currently shipped with CMFDefault/CMFDecor);  we may
> need to move the non-presentation elements (the PythonScripts
> which serve as POST targets) into a different layer, to make them
> easier to reuse across skins.
>

Is there a roadmap for this ?

and how can the eurozope-community help ?


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Joachim Schmitz

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