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Antes:
Well, this was talked in 2009. I just want to remind it.

The idea came from when we update language files, we need to inform users manually that's a big work (and nearly impossible) so small area for language files shows

Current Revision : xx
Latest Revision : xx

I think this can be useful for everyone :)

emanuele:
That reminds me to ask why SMF doesn't use a "proper" package (i.e. one that can be uploaded through the package manager) to install languages...
I can imagine three reasons:
1) in the past it could've been a problem of size (maybe the pack was large due to the images, honestly I haven't checked 1.0 and 1.1 file sizes even though I have them around somewhere), but nowadays that shouldn't be a problem,
2) a problem of packaging (i.e. the language editor is able to pack the files, but not to create a package-info.xml),
3) forums with *a lot* of languages would have a page full of packs.

Is there any other reason?

Antes:
LE already putting revision numbers after you make commit to it (translate/update/delete etc...) and making this to all files, so maybe there will be a compare tool reads first line of language file

// Version: 2.0; Login R5700 (example) and compare it with core one, different ? One click update

Arantor:
Well, it's weird because the package manager is aware of packages whose type is language (along with modification, avatar, smiley and the ever famous 'other')

They're even segregated away from all the other packages when the page is built.

The language editor itself doesn't make package-info.xml files if I remember rightly but that's no big deal. What would be fantastic is if in 2.1 the files were re-arranged into Themes/default/languages/english and so on since then it's a one line operation to handle it in the package-info.xml file (just require the entire directory)

emanuele:

--- Quote from: Arantor on July 13, 2012, 10:18:34 AM ---Well, it's weird because the package manager is aware of packages whose type is language (along with modification, avatar, smiley and the ever famous 'other')
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Yes, I've seen them while rewriting a couple of things and that was one of the reasons I was wondering why it is like that...


--- Quote from: Arantor on July 13, 2012, 10:18:34 AM ---The language editor itself doesn't make package-info.xml files if I remember rightly but that's no big deal.
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Yep, it should not be difficult to create.


--- Quote from: Arantor on July 13, 2012, 10:18:34 AM --- What would be fantastic is if in 2.1 the files were re-arranged into Themes/default/languages/english and so on since then it's a one line operation to handle it in the package-info.xml file (just require the entire directory)

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Yes, that would be a wonderful thing to do... but I think it was more for the step 1.x => 2.0 or now 2.x => 3.0.
I'd love to see all the languages in their sub-dirs (would be so easy to delete one :)), but change it at that stage wound mean to break almost every existing mod...(not that we didn't break anything already! :P) ...and now that I think about it, it would probably require some changes to the language editor too (just guessing though).

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