[translations] Re: [development] Locale module and gettext

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
>   
>> IIRC there has been speculation that using the gettext object files (.mo
>> files) for storing translations instead of the database would be a lot
>> faster. Unfortunately, I can not confirm this. It seems to be somewhat
>> faster but not that much that I'd consider the inclusion of such a
>> feature worthwhile. The configuration is rather awkward and error prone.
>>     
>
> If this requires the gettext module turned on in PHP, then what is the
> point?

The point would have been to support the gettext stuff as well as the 
native Drupal db cache.

>  Push the database based translation support into contrib and
> support a mo file based engine in core?

Support .mo files through gettext extension in core.

>  Or add a t() API? :) Requiring
> the gettext extension without an alternative is IMHO not an option.
>   

I've never proposed that.

> Providing a significantly more efficient but PHP configuration dependent
> engine could be a good idea though.
>   

That was the idea, but apparently the efficiency gain isn't all that big.

Cheers,
    Gerhard