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["Joel Pitt" <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ari,

That'd be great. I'm currently working on it, but this week I was
distracted by attention allocation stuff after coming up with some an
insight into why it wasn't working quite right.

OpenCog should run on windows. Some people have worked on porting
opencog (I forget who)

There are details here:
http://www.opencog.org/wiki/Talk:BuildingOpenCog and in the
README.win32 file. If you have trouble it might be worth sending an
email to the opencog-dev mailing list on launchpad. Also, if you
haven't already, you'll have to sign a SIAI contributors agreement so
that new changes can be merged into the code (It basically lets SIAI
relicense OpenCog for commercial use).

You'll want to grab the pln branch from bzr (
lp:~opencog-dev/opencog/pln ), since it's not in the main bzr branch
yet.

Cesar has just split all the Rules and Formulas in to separate
files/dirs. He's now looking at making PLN use the OpenCog xml
functions instead of using the separate PLN one. I thought this would
insular enough to not affect the rest of the porting much (and can
probably be applied later as a separate patch).

I was about to add the AtomTableWrapper functions for intercepting
fresh=true, but that might be something you'll be more proficient at
(also, I'm working on my other contract until wed next week, although
I may have still time in the weekend for OpenCog). Since the fresh and
managed parameters have been removed from addAtom calls, you may want
occasionally want to diff against the Novamente originals to find out
if they used true/false for each. I tried to just comment them out,
I'm not sure if Cesar has consistently done so.

Hopefully you won't feel like we've butchered your work too much ;)

J

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Ari Heljakka
<ari.heljakka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> are you now continuously working on PLN porting, or less continously?
>
> Let me know if there are any further big issues that you're having trouble
> with.
>
> I think I could actually do a bit of coding myself, too, to fill in the
> gaps. If I could get OpenCog running in Windows (MSVS), I think I could help
> a lot even with only a few hours of work in this specific issue.
>
> I wonder if the Windows project/makefile is being maintained, or was it just
> a temporary experiment? (I didn't complete my attempt at it yet because I
> was told I have to install n+1 separate libs first.)
>
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