[Oship] OSHIP Update
Hi All, It has been awhile since I've sent out an update but that doesn't mean things are not happening. First of all the translators are working hard. Especially Eduardo and Roberto. https://translations.launchpad.net/oship/trunk/+pots/oship I have just update the trunk with the latest translations. Also I'm work on adding the decision support engine (dse) to OSHIP. It consists on the "gold standard" inference engine CLIPS using the PyClips wrapper. It is working and I'm finishing up a small demo to show developers the syntax. The demo is actually two demos in one. It shows how the decisions can be made using the typical If/then constructs and then it contrasts that with the inference engine approach. OSHIP will ship with the dse disabled. This is because to enable it requires a C compiler and many times a platform may not have one installed already. Grok's Martian module wants to compile everything it finds so it would really make a mess on those machines w/o a C compiler when someone tried to install OSHIP if the dse were enabled by default. I expect to be asking for our normal peer-review process of the https://code.launchpad.net/~oship-dev/oship/oship-dse branch within the next 7 - 10 days. Before I merge this to the trunk. So you Windows and Mac guys may want to get your C compilers ready. :-) A note on this from the PyClips documents: """ I use GCC 3.x to compile PyCLIPS both on UNIX (Linux and Solaris) and on Win32. If Python was compiled using Visual C 8.0 (the one released with Visual Studio 2005 Express) and the Platform SDK, this environment does also build the module successfully, although with warnings due to deprecation of insecure functions: unfortunately the officially released Python 2.4 binary does not support modules built in this way. Win32 users are encouraged to use the prebuilt package. PyCLIPS can also be successfully compiled using the free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. However also this compiler will issue some warnings (see below) which are mostly safe to ignore. """ There are some other files we have to move around though because we run OSHIP in a virtual environment and inside a web app framework. But it isn't too arduous. Thanks for your time and support. --Tim -- Timothy Cook, MSc Health Informatics Research & Development Services LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook *************************************************************** *You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or * *from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home * ***************************************************************
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