Move language files to plugin subdirectory

[sooskriszta]

At the moment,
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress location of bbPress plugin
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages location of .pot
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/ location of language files (.po .mo)

.pot .po and .mo files should be located in and accessed from a single location
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages

[sooskriszta]

At the moment,

location of bbPress plugin
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress

location of .pot
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages

location of language files (.po .mo)
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/

.pot .po and .mo files should be located in and accessed from a single location
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/languages

This is the standard for WordPress plugins.

[johnjamesjacoby]

The reason they aren't in the plugin subfolder is because any languages will get deleted when a bbPress update comes through. In the future, plugins will pull their translations directly from GlotPress and this will be a non-issue. Until then, stashing them in the core languages folder is the safest place.

[sooskriszta]

The overwriting won't be a problem if bbPress ships with the languages.
​http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1738

GlotPress is an interesting concept. But do you think it is a good idea for the translation to be pulled live from a web service? I can think of several concerns:

• If glotpress website goes down, then millions of non-English sites will practically become unusable
• What about latency? Wouldn't this add another layer of delay? Of particular concern to shared hosting users
• Also regarding latency, will this mean that the pages can't be fully cached as static?

Or maybe I haven't understood how GlotPress will work...maybe every update to the language will push .mo .po files to the WordPress installation, and these files will continue to be stored locally...