Thomas,
Le 19 janv. 2012 à 12:06, Thomas Mortagne a écrit :
A deprecation
mechanism should be able to support the developer into actualizing to the right keys,
chosen from a finite set of suggestions (the new keys).
Examples would be nice ;)
Think of redoing a part of "my blabla profile" where "my
contributions" are displayed so that it can speak to the third person when the user
is not the same: you'd start with a copy of the profile velocity views (pages, vm
files), then modify them progressively.
The keys, maybe they were prefixed with "myblabla" would be refactored to be
either with "ownblaba" and "othersblabla".
Ideally, this should be done in one shot, so no real need of deprecation, but I do not
think this can be ensured.
Do you mean that the old key is refactored in severals
? In this cases
as a key cannot contains a white space in Properties specs we could
have:
#@deprecated new.key.subname1 new.key.subname2
old.key.name=Default translation
Fits me perfectly!
The encoding
is bound to the target usages and vice versa...
Not sure I understand what you
mean.
that's philosophical: I meant we need to envision the usages to make sure the
knowledge representation is good engouh.
The restricted
view of a key-renaming appears to me as something that could be easily automated leading
to an automatic refactoring of the sources.
Other deprecation mechanisms cannot be so: the deprecation without replacement can only
lead to a developer warning, the deprecation with multiple alternatives can only lead to a
warning with suggestion...
Sure it's hard to automate translation copy to the new key when there
is 0 or more that one new keys. Do you mean that we need a syntax
advanced enough to explain to the l10n wiki or any other tool how to
cut the key in peaces to put it in the right keys ?
I did mean this indeed.
I'm just
trying to see the big picture of the future before settling on the knowledge
representation...
Sure, that's why this proposal is for: make sure we go in the right
direction. But does not mean we have to do everything at once, just
that we need to make sure we don't block the future ;)
We're on the same wavelength.
I think at this point, considering all the cases we've considered, I can say:
+1.
I would lover, however, to see what tools are used that use the deprecation.
paul