On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:51:40PM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> >What about just having the messages go onto the wire in a structured
> >way (instead of preformatted), and let the client side deal with the
> >localization?
> >
> >
>
> I don't think that's a good idea. It will not work well with different
> versions in the client and server. Subversion will be widely used, as is
> CVS now, you can't expect everybody to upgrade. And there are
> distributions, who will provide somewhat older versions. With your
> proposal a new version server won't be able to report a properly
> localized error if this error condition is new.
It seems to me that localization is, well, a local thing. If a person
speaks Esperanto, it would be a shame for them to require every server
administrator on the planet to upgrade.
--ben
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Received on Wed Mar 31 05:10:12 2004