"RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:
RJ> w.r.t the comment about long term solutions, wouldn't the
RJ> right move be for 2.1 to install an en directory, and load it
RJ> with the english files?Probably so.
RJ> I would presume that mailman will ship, eventually, with all
RJ> the various language files that are contributed back, so why
RJ> should en be any different? That way there's no real need to
RJ> special case, since the install porocedure will correctly
RJ> build the directory.I'm not sure I want to ship other languages with the base Mailman distro. There are three reasons. First, the language catalogs will increase the size of the distro, although it that may not be big enough to matter. Second, and more important, is that the language catalogs may have a different release schedule than the core system. I.e. new languages will be donated and existing languages will be updated on the translator's time frame. I'd like to not tie language specifics to the core system. Third, I think very few sites are going to need all the available languages. I can certainly see that many sites will need one, perhaps two languages, but not all.
I'm not 100% on this though, so convincing arguments are welcome! But right now I see shipping the core Mailman distro with English support only, but making it extremely simple to download and install a new language.
-Barry