!!!Meeting with Polderland 13.3.2007

Participants:
* Peter Beinema
* Sjur Moshagen



!!Agenda

* Since last time
* Possible issues
* Next meeting
* Todo items for the next meeting



!!Since last time

!Polderland:

* test software sent, does not recognise UTF8 -> investigating
** upgraded test software, now handles utf8 (requires option -u8).
   Sorry for forgetting to mention the option immediately.
* lexicon issue: "WI" words ignored under certain circumstances.
  This is on purpose: used to be regarded as somewhat "lesser" word class.
  investigating impact of changing this.
** Divvun is presently pregenerating the closed POSes including clitics, which
   means we do not need the clitics for the W entries
** but PLD is interested in finding out what led to this way of handling data
* windows installer: check if executable winzip version will run
  setup.exe automatically
* send all files + instructions to create mac .pkg/.pax installer

!Divvun:

* new speller test tools working fine with the UTF-8 bug fixed
** found a new, smaller issue with the test tool skipping lines beginning with
  non-letters (ie numbers, hyphen). It should test those as well.
* derivations added to the PLX dataset, but the conversion to PLX is now
  extremely slow - working on fixing it
* automated testing partially built, but will need some more work
* also created an AppleScript to run text documents through the speller using
  MS Word - it will allow us to test spellers for other languages, and compare
  their behaviour with ours, as well as check consistency between the
  command-line tool and the MS Word behaviour:-) (it is very slow, though)
  (it is in {{gt/script/*.applescript}}, usage example towards the end of
  {{gt/Makefile}})


!!Possible issues

!Updating installer packages

We (ie Divvun) can now easily compile our own speller lexicons - thanks for the
tools:-)

But we also need to place that speller lexicon file over the old one within the
installation packages. For that I assume we need the original installation
package script (or whatever it is called), and for Win we also - I assume - need
the software used to create the installer? (the corresponding software is
included on the Mac, as part of the developer tools).

The tools used:
* Windows: InstallShield + small executable asking for the language to install
* Mac: Apple Installer tool



!!Next meeting

Next Tuesday (20.3.) at the usual time.

!!!TODO:
* check handling of lines by test software: lines starting with non-alpha
  skipped? cf. types-err-sme.txt: first 7 lines skipped
* check: does the Adobe hyphenator differentiate between
  "word boundary" (strong) hyphenation points and "word internal" (weak) ones?
* send all files for mac installer + instructions
* setup-text for windows installer: does language chosen
  refer to installer interface, or to language to be installed?
* installer for windows: should be multi-lingual for
  Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, English, N.Sami and L.Sami.
  Check which installshield version we need
* discuss: how to include new lexicons in installer (__PLD__)
* check: installer on Mac should be able to:
** move existing proofing tools out of the way (into a zip archive?)
** restore "original" proofing tools on deinstallation
*** yes, but some residues remain after de-installation.
*** solution probably requires admin rights - will document
* check if Sami-codes are included in Office 2008 / Mac (__PLD__)
  (when beta arrives with codes) (__Polderland__)
* try to find proper compiler version for Adobe Indesign (old version will
  probably do) (__Polderland__)
* send speller lexicon (or CVS tag) for the beta release to Polderland
  (__Sjur__)