django-multilingual syntax poll

Those days there is some activity in the django model translation area, specially for the two new projects that joined django-multilingual and transdb to achieve this: django-transmeta and django-modeltranslation.

While there are some intentional differences among some projects (for example django-modeltranslation is the only one that can translate models without editing them), it would be great to merge all (or most) existing projects, and join the efforts to get our best application (and hopefully it'll worth to be included in Django itself).

So, with the merge of those applications in mind, we're planning to create a branch on django-multilingual that will have the very best of each existing application, and any other cool idea.

So if you have good Python/Django skills, and want to add some open source work in your CV... ;) join us now!

Or if you are a potential user of this application, or you just think that your opinion is worth to be shared, please fill the MODEL SYNTAX POLL, or mail us with your ideas.

Here there are simple sample for each option on the poll:

class Translation

class MyModel(model.Model):
    my_field = CharField()

    class Translation(multilingual.Translation):
        my_i18n_field = CharField()

custom fields

class MyModel(model.Model):
    my_field = CharField()
    my_i18n_field = TransCharField()

separate model

class MyModel(model.Model):
    my_field = CharField()
    my_i18n_field = CharField()

Class MyModelTranslation(TranslationOptions):
    fields = ('my_i18n_field',)

translate attrs in Meta

class MyModel(model.Model):
    my_field = CharField()
    my_i18n_field = CharField()

    class Meta:
        translate = ('my_i18n_field',)

translate=True in field options

class MyModel(model.Model):
    my_field = CharField()
    my_i18n_field = CharField(translate=True)

Do you have a better idea? Just leave a comment here, or write a mail on this thread