Tim Foster wrote:
Hey folks,
We're getting gradually closer to the open source release of our XLIFF
translation editor (it's currently referred to as "STE" (Sun Translation
Editor) - it'll definitely change it's name once it's released of
course) and things are starting to progress again : it's been a hard
slog, but the end is in sight.
Hurrah!
I'm sure this is exactly the kind of thing you'll get help with when you open source it.Young asked me to drop this alias a mail to talk a bit about the prospects of using the STE with free java implementations.
(at the risk of sounding like a troll) We've done a bit of investigation
here and concluded that at the moment, it probably won't work with
either GNU Classpath or Kaffe.
There's only Boris (and me sometimes) working on the editor here, while I spend my time working on the rest of the XLIFF filters and TM server code -- right now, we don't have the bandwidth to try to make the code run on older or slightly incompatible Java implementations. Right now, we need to run the editor under the Sun JDK 1.4.2 or greater.
Now, that's not to say it's impossible, or a bad thing to have the code
run on a free java implementation, far from it - I'd love to make the
editor as accessible as possible, just that we haven't got there yet.
When the code is open-sourced, we'd be delighted to get help achieving
this goal, along with the other hopes we have for the future of the
editor and the rest of the translation tools, which we think are pretty
nifty.
Is it only the editor you are concerned about? I wonder if the XLIFF filters will run fairly easily ... what GUI system does the editor use?
Can't wait to see this, looks like you're going to beat my 2009 prediction by a long way :-)
David
If you haven't seen the editor before, there's a recorded demo at : http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf/20050204#live_xliff_editor_demo
Loads more info on my blog about the tools as well - just need to dig a bit for it.
cheers, tim
ps. You might be interested in this post too : http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf/20050208#openoffice_org_sxw_to_xliff
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