Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 11:25 schrieb Thilo Pfennig: > GnuCash is one of the > applications where localization is more than just translating the > interface - or potentially it could.
Yes. On the other hand I think this has been handled in the gnucash core distribution just fine. Language teams that wanted to submit more than "just" a translation have very much the possibility to do so: In addition to the normal translations, the gnucash core repository accepts account templates, the documentation translation, even locale-dependent features (like the --enable-locale-specific-tax, as broken as it might be, but at least it is possible). I think from a technical point of view enough options are offered. > So my idea or question is if it wouldnt be a good thing to split up the > repository. So for example there is one core GnuCash module - and that > this is what people get as a gnucash.tar.gz, while they would have to > install other packages to get what makes sense for them. For example > one could have something like gnucash-germany which could have > dependecy to (certainly) GnuCash core, but also to some accounting > methods or features. I'm sorry, but I disagree here. I don't think it is a good idea to split up the repository. As I said above, IMHO the infrastructure already exists for many different levels of localizations. IMHO it is merely an issue of country / localization contributors - we don't have more localization because no further contributors are there. Encouraging another form of "splitting up" for third-party "downstream modules" IMHO would give you almost no benefit here, whereas you immediately get a whole bunch of drawbacks. To mention a few: API synchronization issues, requirements of handling more than one translation domain (which will be a pain in the backside in libglade), different levels of code auditing and proof-reading, much less cross-platform testing for the downstream modules, etc. etc. Nevertheless, this is GPL software and we already have a plugin system up and running, hence nobody is hindering anyone to offer a "gnucash plus my preferred localization extensions" to the public. But speaking as a gnucash core developer, I can't see how a repository organization different from our current one would give anyone any noticable gain in terms of localization features. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
