[Zope3-dev] There's something wrong with having message ids in schemas

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:15:17AM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote:
> The declaration
> 
>   >>> class IFoo(Interface):
>   ...
>   ...    bar = Field(
>   ...        title="Bar",
>   ...        description="This is a Bar")
> 
> would be equivalent to todays spelling of
> 
>   >>> from zope.app.i18n import ZopeMessageIdFactory as _ 
>   >>> class IFoo(Interface):
>   ...
>   ...     bar = Field(
>   ...        title=_("Bar"),
>   ...        description=_("This is a Bar"))
> 
> 
> Here is the catch though. `zope.schema` would still depend on 
> `zope.i18nmessageid`. But the benefit is that only `zope.schema` would need 
> some code to handle the case when the `zope.i18nmessageid` code is not 
> available.It would definitely free all `zope.*` packages of the explicit 
> `zope.i18nmessageid` dependency.

You're proposing to remove all usage of _()?
But then how does xgettext or pygettext identify translatable strings in
the source code?  

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Paul Winkler
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