[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] Reworked unified Locale classes

[Andreas Nahr]

First of all lets say this is obviously just my personal optionion:

> In the case you want to drop ResourceManager I have the following two
> questions:
> Why are we working on Mono if we think that it unsuitable for it's own 
> needs
> as well?

I always try to do as much things as possible natively in mono (In fact the 
string class is still much less managed than I would like it to be) and I 
think this should be done in mono.

> Why should we use a non existing infrastruncture for localization instead 
> of
> an already existing infrastructure?

Because you should look at the point that there are millions of possible 
uses of mono. We are a plattform and I think making too many assumptions 
about how it is used doesn't make sense. I believe that for the vast 
majority of applications the existing infrastructure works just fine (I use 
it myself for a lot of projects), however it imho wouldn't be a good thing 
for mono itself.
There are lots of possible uses of mono apps:
In a Forms application this issue probably wouldn't be very problematic, 
because the developer of the app doesn't expect it to use only a very small 
amount of memory, however a console app developer might not be happy about a 
substantial memory overhead. If somebody develops a service which runs in 
the background and is allocating several megs of data - that gets never 
freed again and is not shared - just because he once wrote "Network failed" 
into a Logfile he will most likely be VERY unhappy about that fact.

I think the question which needs to be answered first is: Does it really 
make sense to translate all errormessages at all? Would we even be able to 
maintain these for a number of languages and which gain would we get from 
it.