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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The student who was working on it graduated and left. Since we ourselves did not have a specific need for a linux version, the work was not continued.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I agree that threading differences is an issue as well, but without looking into it again I do not recall it being a show-stopper. I am aware of at least one commercial port to linux, but of course this would not be available in open source.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If anyone is interested in completing the port or funding a way to otherwise support the activity we would very much try to support it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> olympus-developers-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu [mailto:olympus-developers-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Aitzaz Ahmad<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 28, 2013 1:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> Alex Rudnicky<br><b>Cc:</b> olympus-developers@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Olympus developers 428]: Re: Support on Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Why wasn't the porting activity completed? I'm just asking to gain a better insight into the problems that were faced during the activity itself. Because I remember reading somewhere in the archived mails that one of the major challenges was the underlying use of Windows threading API. <br>I've been considering the option of porting the code to Linux recently and I want to guage the effort that might be required. We are working on a spoken dialogue system for Urdu language at Center For Language Engineering in UET Lahore under Dr. Sarmad Hussain. But we do have timelines to meet. I just want to know if the activity would be too costly in terms of working hours required to be considered as a viable option or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Aitzaz Ahmad</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>----------</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." Dr. Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs (1991)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 27 November 2013 20:53, Alex Rudnicky <<a href="mailto:Alex.Rudnicky@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">Alex.Rudnicky@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phoenix is C code. Rosetta is Perl. Helios is C++, like RavenClaw.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>RavenClaw was implemented with a view to making it portable to Linux. The main issue with Windows/Linux (for us at least) were the string manipulation libraries. An attempt was made to compartmentalize these, so in principle porting would be simpler. Some work was done towards a port (in regularizing the code) but was not completed.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Alex</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:olympus-developers-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">olympus-developers-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:olympus-developers-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">olympus-developers-bounces@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Aitzaz Ahmad<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:olympus-developers@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">olympus-developers@mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Olympus developers 426]: Support on Linux</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> After reading the archived email threads, I know that RavenClaw doesn't work on Linux based platforms. What I didn't get to know is that do we have the same problem for Pheonix, Helios and Rosetta? Or do they work fine on a Linux environment. I have been posting questions frequently to the developers mailing list but I haven't been getting any response from your side lately. I would really appreciate if you could reply to the question in this email.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Aitzaz Ahmad</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>----------</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." Dr. Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs (1991)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>