Code review comment for lp:~launchpad/launchpad/recife

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) wrote :

We went over that at the time. An is_current_distro flag wouldn't work; it implies a different model than we actually implemented. A single flag is enough for Ubuntu plus derived distributions, but not for any and all distributions. In theory we support translation of other distributions today, more or less; in practice we don't. Making that explicit fits in with the strategic direction that was set for us; without that, we wouldn't have been able to make this change at all.

Perhaps we'll find another way to support sharing across distributions later, if required, but that would have to be designed for the new model where translations can be shared outside their project or distribution in the first place. So if we ever work on that, picking a name here that suggests it's part of that hypothetical future model is more likely to get in the way or confuse things than it is to be just the thing we'll happen to need.

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