[Zope3-dev] Locale and Object Formatting (numbers and datetimes)

[Stephan Richter]

Shane and I continued on this thread privately for quiet a while, so I thought 
it would be nice to post the final agree ment to the list, so that there is a 
permanent record of this.

Regards,
Stephan

On Monday 02 December 2002 09:32, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 November 2002 20:46, you wrote:
> >>On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Stephan Richter wrote:
> >>>So, based on everything that was said, I think the service you envision
> >>>should be called something like "FormatService" or "FormattingService",
> >>>since you really do not care about Locales, whereby my proposal does.
> >>>What do you think about these names?
> >>
> >>Hmm, still not quite it. :-)  My service might do more than just
> >>formatting.  The only difference is that your service knows about all
> >>locales and assumes nothing; my service knows about exactly one locale
> >> and assumes the app only wants to deal with that one locale.
> >>
> >>So maybe yours is the "GlobalLocales" service, and mine is the "Locale"
> >>service?
> >
> > Okay, I think we are getting closer. Right, I think mine is more a global
> > handler, since it will be incredibly unlikely that someone will install
> > Locales placefully. Ah, I think I have the perfect name for my service
> > now: "LocaleProviderService"
> >
> > The your service can be called "LocaleService" and decide what locale to
> > use (getting it from the LocaleProvider or not)
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> 100% agreed.  LocaleProvider is a perfect name.  Good thinking.
>
> Shane

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