19 Jan
2012
19 Jan
'12
11:36 a.m.
Thomas,
Le 19 janv. 2012 à 10:57, Thomas Mortagne a écrit :
That's clear to me.
The encoding is bound to the target usages and vice versa...
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...
I'm just trying to see the big picture of the future before settling on the knowledge
representation...
paul
I'm
surprised, though, that you have the renaming scenario in mind only, it is rarely needed
while the "fuzzy renaming" is quite often needed to my experience.
It's not the only thing I have in mind, it's the only thing I plan to
do shortly because me have a need for it right now: most of the XE
translation keys are going to be renamed while we move the page to
separate applications. What do you mean by "fuzzy renaming" ?
It happens more often than it should that some message translations usages need to be
refactored to the usage of different keys because of their environment (in this section,
one should say it this way, in this section one should say it that way).
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).
What is the
flow of deprecation, how would a developer or tester be warned of a deprecated message?
This is not going to change, the current rule is that when you need to
rename a translation key you move the old one in a deprecation section
of the translation file and we are supposed to remove the key when
it's not used anymore in any active branch (we actually forgot to
remove lots of older translations when deleting branches).
The proposal here is not about how do we deprecate translations, I
just want to propose a syntax to indicate what is the new name of a
deprecated translations which is not a new concept itself.