[development] translation for the installer?

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Jeremy Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:10:55 +0200
> Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard at killesreiter.de> wrote:
> 
>> Jeremy Andrews wrote:
>>> Where you run into a problem is when there's shared
>>> messages, ie as is desired by the requirements api which
>>> could also be used by Drupal itself when enabling
>>> modules, as well as by the installer during initial
>>> setup.  Any text displayed by Drupal is already wrapped
>>> in t(), so I think the logical thing to do is to expand t
>>> () to support both reading mappings from text fiels in
>>> addition to from the database.  Then t() could be
>>> consistently used in all code, including the installer.
>> t() is called at least several dozen times per page, any
>> complication should be avoided. The installer is a one time
>> thing and should not impact the running of the site.
> 
> Yes, but my point is that there are instances where the same
> message will need to displayed by the installer and by Drupal
> core.  All messages displayed by drupal core are wrapped in 
> t().  So either t() needs to support non-database
> translations, or...?

I don't see why the installer can't use the existing PO parsing 
functions to parse a PO file and then display the result through another 
function.

Cheers,
	Gerhard