On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 13:00 +0200, Lars Kruse wrote: > Hi Urso, > > > I am currently working on a VMWare Virtual Machine (VM) for as a Pootle > > Server. (I started last week a discussion/question about a ready made Pootle > > server on Virtual Machine. > > I am making a VM based on SuSE Linux. > > I could imagine, that a debian based image could be easier to prepare due to > their scriptable bootstrapping tools (debootstrap, live-helper) and their > quite > current pootle packages. But SuSE surely has something similar, I guess ... > Anyway: you do the work - so you decide :) > It is a great project - however it is done ...
True, or look at my tentative Fedora RPMs where I've added startup scripts: http://translate.sourceforge.net/releases/testing/fedora/ > > Does someone has recommendations for the choice of a version control system? > > If it were to me, I would use subversion. But I would like to know if there > > are any pitfalls discovered in the combination Pootle/Subversion.? > > Suggestions?? > > > > What about bazaar, cvs, git and others? I can remember that Sayamindu (if I > > am correct) was working on a version control (issue) around Pootle... but I > > am not sure if I understood well. > > Right now there are no specific issues with the different supported version > control systems, as far as I know. So this should not influence your > decisions. > > If I understand you correcly, then you want to encourage people to try out > pootle in this a pre-installed "package"/image, to check if it suits their > needs. In this case I would definitely install all the version control > programs, that are available in SuSE. They do not interfere with each other - > so you don't loose anything. > > Btw: with the indexing engine it is different: there you can only choose one > of > xapian/pylucene. If I remember correctly, then the translate toolkit would > prefer xapian over pylucene, in case both are installed. > > > > I am working on a small VM which can host a small amount of language (having > > Pootle footprint in mind). > > The footprint mainly depends on the size of projects - not so much on the > available languages. But this can reconfigured by the user later, anyway - so > it > is no problem ... > > > > If I succeed I will try to make this available somewhere on Internet. > > The VM is 4GB big and I have been told that this size could be a problem at > > SourceForge (for instance). > > Suggestions?? > > I guess, you thought about compressing the image? > Did you create a list of the SuSE packages, that can be removed from the > pootle image? > Do you need X / KDE / Gnome? > > > I hope, this helped, > regards. > Lars > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Translate-pootle mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
