595820 - Support Fluent in the installer/deinstaller/updater etc.

Status: NEW

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

We need to investigate our abilities to deliver unified l20n experience to the code base outside of core Gecko.

Things that come to my mind are:
 - Windows installer
 - Updater
 - Crash reporter tool

there are probably others as well

Comment 1

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

The current way would be to use fluent-rs, but it has not been validated yet.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Zibi: can I get an opinion on the the validity of using fluent-rs in toolkit/crashreporter? And the difficulty? For context, we just landed some Rust (mozwer) into that tool (on Windows, at least).

Comment 3

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Using fluent-rs itself is not challenging and the package is mature, so I'm comfortable recommending it.

The only tricky question is what you'd want to do for resource loading, since fluent-rs itself is intentionally agnostic here. You could use l10nregistry-rs (which is about to get merged into Gecko), or roll out some simpler mechanism without any fallbacks to just load files from hard drive.