On 27 March 2012 23:27, Mikel Artetxe <artet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now I really understand you and you have definitely convinced me. So yes, it > is going to be better to forget about my GUI idea and work on a command line > tool. The utility proposed by Jimmy seems very interesting in that respect. > The only problem that I see is that I have never worked with Ant (and my > experience with makefiles and so is also quite little), so this would be > something new for me. Would this suppose a big difficulty? I mean, I would > be reading documentation and working hard to learn about it, but my lack of > experience could perhaps be a problem... What do you think about it? >
Not to worry :) Ant is just a DSL for building software. The main difference between something like ant and make is the notion of a dependency - that certain tasks need to be completed before others. The task to build a jar depends on the task to compile the class files, etc. > Just mention that the main problem that I found when working on the iOS > prototype was the fact that there were several duplicated symbols. For > instance, each program (ltproc, interchunk, postchunk and so on) has > logically a main function but, since iOS apps must consist of a single > executable, their names collide when putting them together. The solution > that I adopted was simply to rename them. Because of that, I sort of > hardcoded the pipeline for a single language pair, using temporary files to > communicate between the different stages of the translation. And, as I said > before, the transfer stage wasn't working, but I couldn't find out why. As > for the dependencies, I simply compile them targeting iOS and link > statically, and it worked. > If you're going to look at that again, you should really take a look at apertium-service. Pasquale already solved the problem of joining together the various components into a single application, and the service part was designed to be pluggable, so it shouldn't be too hard to rip it out. > Is it better now? Any other suggestion? Looks good to me. Very well thought out. -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
