[development] relationships API vs i18n

[Dries Buytaert]

On 09 Nov 2006, at 22:21, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> We can of course introduce a new table into core to handle this  
> just for i18n, and it would be very simple to do:
>
>   CREATE TABLE translation (
>     nid1 int
>     nid2 int
>   );
>
> The problem is that it is too domain specific and not really  
> forward looking IMHO. We might just end up with this, but we might  
> get further if we think ahead.

I don't see the addded value of doing this through a relationships  
API with a generic table.  It would only safe 10 lines of code, and  
make things slower and harder to grok.  Having simple, specialized  
tables (like the one above) is anything but a bad thing, IMO.

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