[Solar-talk] Locale files

[Antti Holvikari]

Hi All!

Im starting the locale discussion here which we already started on #solarphp.

Ok so, the problem with the current locale  implementation is that
it's a living hell trying to maintain all the locale files. They're
everywhere and you don't know if and what is missing from every file.

I would want to keep the keys grouped by class, but still be able to
define keys in one file or in as many files as I want. For example,
the files could be separated by "packages", as in pear packages. Since
Solar is distributed in one package, there really isn't a need to
separate locales to many files.

So what would the file look like? I'm thinking something along these lines:

array(
    'Solar_Example' => array(
        'KEY' => 'Val',
    ),
    'Solar_Example_Other' => array(
        'KEY' => 'Val',
    ),
)

That could be in, say, Solar/Locale/en_US.php. Now, I could still have
a locale dir in my own package 'Vendor/App/Sunny/Locale', which would
be merged to the master Solar locale array.

Now, how should we implement the locale file searching and merging?
Forcibly search under every parent class? :-(

-- 
Antti Holvikari