Re: [libreoffice-projects] [libreoffice-website] Evaluation of askbot - how to deal with different languages

Hi Drew,

Am 26.11.2011 um 13:55 schrieb drew:
> Thanks - Knew that one, but don't see it as multi-lingual, all parts
> (UI, Tags, Q + A) are in a single language, based on url.[1] 
> What am I missing, or perhaps change of browser language preference is
> not enough to show what you mean?

On the main shapado site, there is a drop down menu at the top of the screen where it's possible to 
select the language of questions to show.
UI stays in english all the time.

> > My current plan is to use language tags and automatic tag filters based on the set/determined 
> > locale of the user for askbot.
>
> OK - well maybe we have been talking past each other - two roads to the
> same desired result. The same split, just using tags vs table prefix.
> OK. 

Using table prefixes needs *very* ugly changes to the code, so this is the case why i didn't 
consider them.
(Inserting a prefix configuration option, changing the model layer to use the prefix, iterating 
over all possible languages to maintain the database)

> HUH - no one in there right mind would make 105 vhosts, nor 105
> databases; 1 vhost, 1 database, multiple tables and separate
> configurations, you know that. Straw man arguments waste everyone's
> time.

As table prefixes require ugly (and deeeeep changes) to the askbot code, multiple instances require 
multiple databases.
And application preferences in mod_wsgi are generally based on vhosts (you could also have a single 
vhost and route subdirs to different settings, same amount of work).
So I don't consider these straw man arguments, however I didn't explain in detail why these 
arguments are valid.

Cu,
Alex
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