469733 - Localize strings in Bugzilla Perl code with maketext

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Vitaly Fedrushkov]

Bugzilla modules, CGI and command line scripts should use loc() to display any messages.

This would also kill strings.txt.pl and most, if not all, of 

  user-error.html.tmpl
  code-error.html.tmpl
  messages.html.tmpl

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

No, you can't kill strings.txt.pl, unless Maketext is installed in the default Perl distribution. We still need strings.txt.pl during the requirements-checking phase.

Comment 2

[Vitaly Fedrushkov]

On a later phase, checksetup.pl uses messages, which safely fall back to English during first pass.  After templates are precompiled, language is switched on the fly.

Of course killing strings.txt.pl would be l10n regression, let's keep it small :-)

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

We are going to branch for Bugzilla 4.4 next week and this bug is either too invasive to be accepted for 4.4 at this point or shows no recent activity. The target milestone is reset and will be set again *only* when a patch is attached and approved.

I ask the assignee to reassign the bug to the default assignee if you don't plan to work on this bug in the near future, to make it clearer which bugs should be fixed by someone else.