Re: [babel-dev] Types of nl folders

[Kit Lo <kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The article in the first link described
2 "basic types" of language packs:
- "NLpacks" that contain translations
of the NL features and translations of properties files in the code plug-ins
- "FeatureOverlays" that contain
translations of the feature.properties files

Each type of language pack is sub-divided
into different language groups:
- group 1 contains translations in German,
Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional
Chinese and Simplified Chinese
- group 2 contains translations in Czech,
Hungarian, Polish and Russian
- group Bidi contains translations in Arabic

That's the practice for Eclipse 3.1 and many
releases before that. The "NLpacks"
work in the major release and all the maintenance releases (for example,
3.1, 3.1.x). However, the "FeatureOverlays" have to be generated
in every major release and all the maintenance releases because they have
to match the code feature version numbers.

The "FeatureOverlays" only
contain translations of the feature.properties
files. We did a survey. The consensus was that it's not worth the trouble
to regenerate the "FeatureOverlays"
for every maintenance release. Therefore, we stopped producing the "FeatureOverlays"
after Eclipse 3.1.

In Eclipse 3.2, another language group was
added:
- group 2a contains the translations in Danish,
Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish
- Hebrew was also added to group Bidi

The different language groups were just a
convenient way to package, install, and load multiple language packs at
the same time. If you prefer, you could create another group A, for example,
to include translations in all languages.

To answer your question, if you move Russian
into group 1, Eclipse can still find the translations. The main thing Java
Resource Bundle looks for is the language suffix in the properties file,
like message_ru.properties.

Kit Lo
IBM Eclipse SDK Globalization Technical Lead
Eclipse Babel Project Co-lead

Margaret Wong <ywong@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Babel Team,

This wiki page indicates there are six types of language packs:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Speak-The-Local-Language/article.html

Whereas this page indicates there are four types of language packs:
http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/L-3.2.1_Language_Packs-200609210945/index.php

What is the reason for separating languages out into these different packs,
is it a functional issue or a organizational issue?  Furthermore,
would Eclipse still properly load a nl2 language if those resources were
in the nl1 jars (i.e. Would Russian still load if the resources resided
in the nl1 plugin jar files)?

Thanks,
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