[Zope-CMF] i18n for CMF And Plone, backporting i18n to Zope 2.x

[Grégoire Weber]

Hi all!

This thread started last week so in the meantime I took a look at the code
concerning the issue.

What I found:

 - It seems the classes in the TAL-Directory can be backported easyly by 
   copying them from Zope 3 (Zope3 head of last week). I couldn't find
   any imports from other Zope3 code than TAL and I18n code.
   
 - The code in the Products/PageTemplates which uses TAL code directory 
   should and could be taken from Zope2 (IMHO)

 - The I18n code relies heavyly on the new Zope3 component architecture
   so backporting work has to be done there by factoring out non Zope3
   related code.

> Sidnei da Silva <sidnei@x3ng.com.br> wrote:
> 
> My friend Lalo (lalo@laranja.org) started a rewrite of TAL to make it more=
 
> pluggable and ease backporting of i18n to Zope2. I dont know how much if=
 it 
> is done right now, but the last time I talked to him, he said that only=
 METAL 
> was missing.

IMHO it is not necessary to rewrite TAL code to backport I18n ...


> "Joachim Werner" <joe@iuveno.de> wrote:
>
> Stephan Richter, who is in charge of Zope3 internationalization, will
> probably do an "official" backport of the i18n stuff later this month. We
> discussed about that on the EuroPython conference in Belgium, which was a
> great conference ...
>
> The backport will be fully supported by Zope Corp (the guys at Python labs
> will do the TAL/METAL work) and be part of one of the next Zope 2.x
> releases. So I think there is no need to do it yourself. But of course you
> could contact Stephan to offer him some help ...

probably end if this month? -- I am planing to redesign the Website of the
Zope User Group Switzerland till end of september (I hope with a lot of 
assistance by the swiss zope community :-). So we probably need a running 
version of I18n before end of august (+/-).

Robert and I talked about contributing in backporting I18n, so contact us (or 
at least me as I don't want to speak for Robert also) if this still makes 
sense ...

By doing this we probably would need some guidance to factor out Zope3 related 
code.

Greetings, Greg
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