Internationalisation
I recently had opportunity to integrate a translation platform into the NetSurf workflow[1]. This integration has been performed on the transifex platform, is complete, and does work reasonably. However without real actual translations it is not useful. I would like to invite anyone with translation skills to improve the netsurf project by using this web interface to enter translations[2]. I am especially interested in any of our current developers providing translatiopns who wish to become translation reviewers to ensure we maintain a high quality. The current number of translated/reviewed strings by language is: English: 100%/100% French: 93%/93% Dutch: 92%/92% German: 92%/92% Italian: 92%/92% Spanish: 87%/0% Chinese: 0%/0% The review status is purely based on the existing corpus (i.e. if it is in the current set of translations it is considered reviwed) The spanish translation is currently a pure machine translation althouh we already have some volunteers from the translation community to whom I am grateful for their input. [1] http://vincentsanders.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/true-art-selects-and-paraphrases-but.html [2] https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/netsurf/ -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Mac OS X
We continue to compile for the Mac OS X cocoa frontend on both PowerPC (OS 10.5 leopard) and x86 (OS 10.6 snow leopard). The Continuous Integration (CI) system uses two real mac mini computers[1] as build slaves as Mac OS X cannot currently be reliably cross compiled for. Recently the PPC CI system build slave (chimera) had a catastrophic hard drive failure and required a complete OS and development tools reinstall. This re-install took an extended period of time as the PPC system is somewhat slow compared to other targets. Generally we use SSD in our build slaves, however I was unwilling to bear the cost of a 2.5inch PATA SSD for this system so its been reinstalled with a reconditioned Seagate 5200 RPM drive. The cocoa frontend currently has no maintainer and I am interested in hearing from any actual users to give an indication as to whether it is worth investing any additional resources on this platform. So any actual users or developers, please speak up now! Note I am not asking for opinion about other considerations such as diversity and how nice it is to have a wide range of platforms supported, purely if there are any actual users. If there are none I shall simply remove these targets from the CI system on the next occasion this rather old and *very* slow hardware fails. [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/29254252@N06/8519229958/in/set-72157626712232414 -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: Mac OS X
In message <20130519091644.gc6...@kyllikki.org> Vincent Sanders wrote: > We continue to compile for the Mac OS X cocoa frontend on both PowerPC > (OS 10.5 leopard) and x86 (OS 10.6 snow leopard). The Continuous > Integration (CI) system uses two real mac mini computers[1] as build > slaves as Mac OS X cannot currently be reliably cross compiled for. One data point coming up: I use MacOS 10.5.8 on an x86 iMac. The machine has an oldish NetSurf on it, but I was actually getting fed up enough with slow performance from Firefox to demote it to G+ and YouTube duties only and seriously try an updated NS as my preferred Mac OS browser. (To date I've only ever made casual use of it on the Mac platform.) But I also have VirtualAcorn, and an Arminix, and NetSurf already is the preferred browser in those two cases, so I have ample workarounds if you do decide to knock your old build environment on the head. I did have to obtain an updated version of Xcode before NS would work for me at all on the Mac. But as long as I can get hold of the very last Mac build I'd be entirely happy. I am already grateful for all the work you guys do. -- Simon Smith | Once more unto now | Is the winter to be or | 'Tis the east (Exit.) | -Wm. Shakespeare, abridged
