[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Now I know,  I should stop reading this thread :)

Gonzalo

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:40 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:53:35PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> > Paint activity was developed by a Brazilian team and a lot of variables
> > had Portuguese names.
> > Whit the time, we changed a lot, but there are a few pending.
>
> It is irritating that we still store source code in linear text files
> without built-in internationalisation.
>
> As you change these names, they become far less useful to programmers
> who use that language.
>
> The development system would be more open and inclusive if there was a
> way to keep variable names, and other text, in multiple languages.
>
> I've seen nothing yet that achieves this.  It would require editor
> application support.
>
> In the meanwhile, the source code moves slowly to the common language
> of the most frequent change directors.  As it happens to be my
> language, I find it hard to object.  ;-)
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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