[wp-hackers] 2.9-rare - pomo obsoletes gettext.php and streams.php - how-to re-write plugin

[Evil ZEN Scientist]

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Peter Westwood
<peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 12 Oct 2009, at 03:39, Evil ZEN Scientist wrote:
>
>  Evening all, long time lurker and all that.
>>
>> I'm testing 2.9 nightly builds - and in the last couple of days a plugin
>> has
>> stopped working.
>>
>> The cause is covered in http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10890
>>
>> We now use pomo to parse the translation files so we no longer need the
>>
>>> php-gettest library
>>>
>>> We should remove it and announce it's not there.
>>>
>>> We need to remove wp-includes/gettext.php and wp-includes/streams.php
>>>
>>>  My question - how can I fix this no-longer-maintained plugin to use the
>> new
>> functions?  (It's the old weather icon plugin)
>>
>> Is there anything graceful that would work with 2.9 and also pre-2.9?
>>
>>
> What is the plugin and what gettext functions was it using directly?
>
> WordPress has a clean api for translations and we replaced the underlying
> implementation of those functions without modifying there behaviour by
> replacing there use of gettext with the use of pomo.
>
> If you can link to the plugin I will happily help you get it updated to a
> working state.
>
> westi
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