[Olympus developers 428]: Re: Support on Linux

[Aitzaz Ahmad]

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.
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.

Aitzaz Ahmad
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"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)


On 27 November 2013 20:53, Alex Rudnicky <Alex.Rudnicky at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Phoenix is C code. Rosetta is Perl. Helios is C++, like RavenClaw.
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> 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
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> *From:* olympus-developers-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu [mailto:
> olympus-developers-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu] *On Behalf Of *Aitzaz
> Ahmad
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:14 AM
> *To:* olympus-developers at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu
> *Subject:* [Olympus developers 426]: Support on Linux
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>      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.
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> Aitzaz Ahmad
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> "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)
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