On 14 Sep 2014, at 19:16, stepharo <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Marcus I think that we should sync because personally I do not want to giant kernel. I want a bootstrap and modular packages.
> I think that making all the packages internal to the image is a recipe to get a monolithic system.
> I do not see why loading a package would hurt.
>
Yes, let’s discuss it sometimes this week.
> Stef
>
>
> On 14/9/14 12:59, Marcus Denker wrote:
>> On 13 Sep 2014, at 20:51, stepharo <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> So I'm checking and when we load Gettext,
>>> System-Localization only contains
>>> ISOLanguageDefinition
>>> Locale
>>>
>>> Locale is used by LanguageEnvironment, LocalID, TimeZone, Unicode
>>>
>>> When we will clean leadingChar some of these will go away.
>>>
>>> So not all the package System-Localisation can be moved out the image to got in a newer version of getText
>>>
>>
>> Localization is very basic functionality that should be provided by the platform itself.
>> We are in the situation that we are in only because people see Pharo as something “to build on top”.
>>
>> This way everyone does their own I18N stuff, while the right thing would be to have *one* that is good and
>> part or Pharo itself.
>>
>> Just think about it: Pharo itself should have translated menus. So we need *something* in the system anyway.
>> Why then not make it good and make it the one that everyone is using?
>>
>> Marcus
>>
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