[development] One core, many distributions

[Jose A. Reyero]

Hi Fehér,

Fehér János wrote:

>I think, i18n functions should be handled by the core. The problem
>of a multilanguage site is too global to handle by an outside module.
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I agree. I am the module maintainer.

>Just look to the ecommerce module (locations, zones for taxes, etc.)
>or node translations (there's no "good" association between the 
>translation and the original node) or menu.module. You have to patch
>the core if you'd like to get the existing i18n to work.
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The next version -4.7- won't need patches anymore -unless we want to go
for some new features, of course...

>On the whole, I'd like to see i18n in the core.
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Well, that one, let's take it easy. The current i18n.module has too many
hacks and workarounds to avoid core patches, and would need to be
reworked to be a core module.
But we are making progress :-) Quite slowly though :-(

Hope to see you around helping and supporting the idea of 'multilingual
Drupal' -whatever form -module, core...- it takes at the end :-)

Cheers,

Jose

>Bests,
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