Silme:0.7: Difference between revisions

# Support for plurals

* '''Feature explanation:''' Add support for entities requiring plural forms in silme.core

**  Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496359 496359] tracks the progress on this feature.

* Both gettext and l20n have support for plural forms

* Presently, Silme is pretty specific to gettext, and we want to migrate it closer to l20n one day

# Get a flat list of entities from a structure

* '''Feature explanation:''' Present a flat list of untranslated entities as output, instead of the nested package structure

** When asking for untranslated entities in a flat list, Silme will now return a list of pairs:  entity *with* the path

**  Using the path, you can write back to the proper place in the structure

* End-user can work on entity-list without having to dig through structure

* This will be used by Koala project

* Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497196 497196] tracks Silme's ability for L10nPackage.get_entities to return entities with paths

*  Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496372 496372] provides the entity list of untranslated strings

# Simplification of the API

* '''Feature explanation:''' Rename Silme's long method and class names with shorter names

* Made class names shorter when possible

* Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498915 498915] tracks this progress

# Processing

* '''Feature explanation:''' Process entities so that processed value of an entity is provided in place of the source name

*  DTD files are loaded with variables like "%sBrandShortName"

* Take entity, process it, and not return the source name of the entity, but the "processed" value

* Silme users then can see the actual structure of the sentence

# Split to repositories

* Silme Library

* Silme Scripts

* Easier to package in easy_install  

* Maintain the library code

* Does rely on any script

# Extended l20n format serializer

* '''Feature explanation:''' Write l20n files with Silme

** Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499145 499145] tracks this feature

# HTML diff output

*  '''Feature explanation:''' With this feature, we plan to add an HTML format serializer for silme.diff.* to Silme so we can present diffs generated from Silme's compare-locales in HTML format

*  Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491715 491715]  

# Clean obsolete scripts

*  '''Feature explanation:'''  This feature will allow obsolete entities within a localization to be removed using a Silme command.

*  Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500339 500339] tracks this progress.