I care deeply about Babel. It is the only way that I have been able to interface between my Excel data and Exhibit displays. Other Excel->Jason converters create Jason that looks a lot like the Babel-created Jason, but make Exhibit croak. A workaround is to use tsv/txt files, but I then lose all special characters like in "Dvořák", which Babel handled just fine.
I have been using Exhibit for a lot more than a decade for multiple purposes. I've had repeated trouble with forced version upgrades of Exhibit that have involved losing features, but losing Babel is really hard to recover from. On Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 5:09:50 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Babel has been down for a decade so hopefully nobody cares. If you rely > on painter, it is because you are using exhibit v2; you should migrate to > exhibit v3 which doesn't use it. Which I expect will be easier to do > while your e2 version is still working. > On 8/26/2024 4:40 PM, V. Alex Brennen wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Over the next month we are planning to migrate the Simile Widgets server > to a new home in the AI Lab. > > As part of this migration process we are planning to retire and shutdown > some applications. Basically, we are shutting down the Java server side > applications and planning to continue to serve the Javascript for the > applications that you run on your own webpages. These Javascript based > applications include, for example, Timeline, Timeplot, Exhibit, etc. The > Java server side applications that are being retired include Babel, > Painter, etc. > > I expect that there will be no noticeable impact or downtime as part of > this migration process. It should be completely transparent to you. All of > your local Javascript based pages are expected to continue to work without > modifications. We will not be changing the domain from simile-widgets.org. > > If anyone would like to run a local copy of the Java applications that we > are retiring, they are fully open source and links to the code repositories > can be found on their application pages on simile-widgets.org. > > If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me > at [email protected] and we can discuss them. > > Thank you, > > V. Alex Brennen > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SIMILE Widgets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/77d27488-d376-4083-bad5-4847d1d31f83n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/77d27488-d376-4083-bad5-4847d1d31f83n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/e0fec93e-3bd9-41b0-b5dc-028b118392a4n%40googlegroups.com.
