Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
By offloading this work to a relationships API, I hope to get more out of this "related nodes" concept then just binary relations of translation nodes. Also this would be something to do for those who are absolutely not interested in i18n, but would like to help bring some cool stuff into Drupal.
The existing relations efforts (some ready code) already operate in this field, and category module uses a similar conceptual approach. I hope that this way we can also revitalize the book module.
That sort of relationship model is (IMO) a necessity for Drupal's long-term health. Like everyone else I took a crack at implementing such a model and have had it sitting in my sandbox for a few months. If we do use 'relationships' as the basis for translation, I hope we take the time to do it in such a way that taxonomy terms, buddy lists, and other kinds of connections can be represented as well. --Jeff