Re: [Apertium-stuff] apertium and lt-toolbox together?

[Aboobacker MK <abo...@gm...>]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Francis Tyers <ft...@pr...> wrote:

> A 2014-09-06 09:01, Mikel Forcada escrigué:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have a question that was posed by my student John E. Ortega (CC-ed).
> > Could someone enlight me about the reasons why we need to have
> > separate installations for lttoolbox and apertium, which in addition
> > go each one in a different directory?
> >
> > Currently, Installing means making two directories, and going in and
> > out of each of them to configure/autogen and make. The
> > configure/autogen sequences for lttoolbox and apertium seem to share
> > most checks and could be easily merged. Also, apertium requires
> > lttoolbox to be installed. Would it make sense to have a single
> > Apertium install that installs the whole canonical Apertium bundle?
> >
> > I know that some people would have to install other non-canonical
> > things like HFST on top, but most language pairs use lttoolbox one way
> > or another.
> >
> > I look forward to your answer
>
> Yes, all pairs use both lttoolbox (at least for the bilingual
> dictionary) and apertium.
>
> As far as I remember the reason for having a separate lttoolbox was
> because some other stuff used lttoolbox as a finite-state library. I'm
> not sure how much that is valid any more.
>
> I think that argument still valid . :-)

> By the apertium 3.5.x release I am planning to merge in lrx-proc and
> lrx-comp to the apertium/ branch (leaving the training tools in
> apertium-lex-tools). I suppose we could do a similar thing with
> lttoolbox too.
>
> Perhaps have lttoolbox and apertium merged as a target for a 4.0 release
> ?
>
Is it really needed ?? for an end user, these are just dependencies of
apertium package . so merging them  won't make installation easier . and if
we merge lttoolbox and apertium , then third party package which depends
lttoolbox have to pull entire apertium library

>
> Fran
>
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