Barry A. Warsaw wrote: >>>>>>"SdS" == Sidnei da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> > > SdS> Well, i didnt told there was i18n support there ;) > > Oh! :) > > SdS> Basically, Alt-TAL is a rewrite of TAL to allow one to expand > SdS> TAL by providing plugins. This means that if you want to > SdS> provide i18n for Alt-TAL you just need to write an i18n > SdS> plugin and register it as a handler for i18n:something. The > SdS> the current TAL implementation is very obscure, and Shane > SdS> agrees with us that it could be highly improved with no much > SdS> effort. > > SdS> At a first glance, you can see that this implementation is > SdS> much clear, and pluggable, and the current TAL needs too much > SdS> hacking to extend support for new tags, and has too much > SdS> dependencies on Zope right now, as someone pointed out. > > I don't know about the "not much effort" part, but in theory, this is > something I'd support. We talked about doing this for the Zope3 i18n > effort, but the primary reason we didn't was due to performance > concerns. After talking with Fred, I came to understand that much of > the code's current obscurity is due to optimizations to make TAL > perform at least as fast as DTML. > > So while I'd love to have the code be cleaner and more pluggable, we > have to decide 1) if we're willing to give up some performance to > acheive this, and 2) if not, can you provide a design and > implementation that will "perform adequately"?
I'll add that the current ZPT implementation is too slow (thanks to recent DTML speedups ;). ZPT needs to be as fast as or faster than DTML. It would be great if it was cleaner and more pluggable. Jim -- -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
