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Subject: Re: development questions (was: Re: Another update on 'portal')
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:10:55 -0000
Message-ID: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889F349@mail.vale-housing.co.uk>
Thread-Topic: development questions (was: Re: [pgsql-www] Another update on
	'portal')
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: <webmaster@letzplay.de>, <borz_off@cs.msu.su>
Cc: <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Grabm=FCller [mailto:webmaster@letzplay.de]=20
> Sent: 14 February 2004 17:35
> To: borz_off@cs.msu.su; Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: development questions (was: Re: [pgsql-www]=20
> Another update on 'portal')
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> When I saw Alexeys posts, I decided to not answer them - it's=20
> difficult for me to have an objective opinion as I simply=20
> don't like the way Alexey came in and said "everything you do=20
> sucks, what I do is the only right way you can do that". That=20
> makes me think "what the hell does that guy want from us?".=20
> However, let me try it.

Thanks :-)

> I have reviewed the code and it looks good - most of it seems=20
> to work, much of my code has been optimized.

OK.

> I can't say if this code is good or this code is bad. He did=20
> the changes he stated in his mail, and they seem to work and=20
> the code techincally looks good (at least better than mine).=20
> The question is, do we want to have this changes? I like the=20
> template usage and the new path format page.html.{ln}. I=20
> personally don't like the usage of gettext as for me this=20
> seems to be overhead - before we had a php file containing=20
> all variables, now we have several .po etc. files which have=20
> to be edited by special software (I think?). All this is just=20
> a question of the personal point of view.

Well, I'm not a translator, but I know ppl that are. We use gettext both in=
 pgAdmin III (which supports over 30 languages, at least a couple of which =
are rtl iirc) and on it's website and my understanding is that it is a nice=
 and convenient method. Apps like poEdit make it easy to see untranslated o=
r updated strings and translate them. Also, Peter Eisentraut suggested gett=
ext and he is certainly experienced in these issues.

So, are we happy to update CVS and whichever dev vhost you are using to thi=
s version and think about what else needs doing before we can go live?

Regards, Dave.