Just had the same thought after I sent that email - precisely since all our stuff is "self-contained" in plugins, separating them out and adding a dependency will add on to the work we would have to do.
I added manual tests to the release checklist: Step 2 of http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/IOSReleaseChecklist http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/iOSManualTests On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Becky Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure that makes it any easier. Yes, we can check for things like > Capital C Cordova, vs lower case c cordova, but it makes the actual coding > more disjoint IMHO. Generally the strings are pretty specific to the > plugin. And, having them all in a separate file makes it harder to separate > out the plugin code. I think what we really need is better testing > mechanisms to catch these type of errors. > > my two cents, > -becky > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Shazron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We currently have to write out JavaScript from Objective-C, and these >> strings can't be checked easily all in one place (note the bugs found >> today slated for 1.6.1) >> >> I'm proposing we either use: >> 1. NSLocalizedString [1][2] where the strings are in an external strings >> file >> 2. an Obj-C templating [3] solution that we need to create, >> essentially the same as 1 but with more features, although that's more >> complex >> 3. Move all the JS strings into an Obj-C file as string constants >> >> Items 1 and 2 require the .strings file to be in the user's >> application potentially (I haven't tested whether loading strings from >> the current framework bundle will work) and may be an upgrade >> nightmare (and we don't want users to edit them). >> Item 3 might be easiest, since it will all be baked-in. >> >> My preference is 1 (if the framework bundle loading works), then 3. >> >> >> [1] http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSLocalizedString >> [2] http://cocoawithlove.com/2011/04/user-interface-strings-in-cocoa.html >> [3] A bit of overkill though, Mustache for Obj-C: >> https://github.com/hiddenmemory/Tipi >>
