New versions of the Translate toolkit and of Pootle were released today. The announcement for the toolkit is in a separate mail on the translate-devel list (and the translate-announce list).
Pootle and the Translate Toolkit are the leading Free tools for online localisation management and translation. This is a major new release, containing several new features and improvements. Version 1.2.0 or later of the Translate Toolkit is needed for Pootle 1.2. Important changes for upgrading from earlier versions are documented on the wiki at http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/important_changes Highlights: * Improvements to search (thanks to Julen Ruiz Aizpuru in GSoC 2008) * Improvements to suggestions (Julen, Wynand, Wil Clouser) * Translation by showing a third language as reference (Julen with initial work by Sayamindu Dasgupta) * Messages are automatically unfuzzied when editing (Julen+Dwayne) * Major changes to statistics. Statistics and uploads should now be substantially faster. I don't usually credit people from Translate.org.za in the release notes, but this was a major piece of work that lays the groundwork for more improvements. Thank you Wynand Winterbach, Nicolas François and everybody else who helped! * Changes to the indexing (especially in the toolkit) should mean much improved searching speed. I hope all administrators would now easily be able to install indexing (I recommend Xapian). There are several enhancements in the Translate Toolkit since version 1.1 which will benefit Pootle users, such as improvements to quality checks, version control systems, .mo files. I also recommend everybody serious about terminology to have a look at the new tool called poterminology. I'm really happy to see how many people contributed to this release, many of them mentioned above for the larger contributions. The team here at Translate.org.za put in a lot of work for this release, and I hope you will get huge benefit from it. Pootle ships with interface translations for 55 languages. Please continue to update the incomplete Pootle translations for your language and to review suggestions perhaps left by other people. The release files are available for download at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91920&package_id=144807 Dependencies to run Pootle 1.2.*: * Python (version 2.5 is the best tested version, but 2.4 should work) * The Translate toolkit version 1.2 or later * jToolkit 0.7.8 or later (http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ * kid 0.9 or later (http://kid.lesscode.org/) * elementtree, unless you use Python 2.5 (http://effbot.org/downloads/#elementtree) * python-Levenshtein is optional, but helps to speed up updating from templates (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91920&package_id=260161) * iso-codes is optional but provides translated language names. (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/iso-codes) * PyLucene or Xapian is optional, but helps to speed up searching. The 1.2 release is maintained in an SVN branch https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/branches/Pootle-toolkit-1.2/ The live documentation is available on the wiki at http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index Please report bugs at http://bugs.locamotion.org -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/virtaal-translation-editor-sake-language ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
