[Zope3-dev] Re: i18n domains vs. unique message ids -OR- why Shakespearean English was better

[Martijn Faassen]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> Due to the lack of other viable suggestions, I implemented this version and 
> checked it in.

Oh, joy, just implement it and check it in the middle of the discussion
because you can't see a viable suggestion..

> While Godefroid and Martijn argued heavily for other options, they would 
> require serious changes in the ZCML framework, which would require a detailed 
> proposal.

You could've told us that before checking it in. :)

> Note that we just came out of a ZCMLgeddon and everyone who looked 
> at the results closely likes it a lot, so that it is very unlikely that a 
> proposal for a rewrite will be accepted.

Okay, so that if we write such a proposal you tell us it wouldn't be
accepted anyway, so why bother, huh?

ZCML is an XML format. We should at least make some attempt to be
XML-ish here. The current implementation of the message id is in effect a 
hack if you look at matters from an XML semantics point of view. Semantics
are introduced which are very hard to capture in an XML schema. I hope
we can at least agree in principle that the current implementation is a hack
and that we should look for ways to improve the situation.

Regards,

Martijn