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[Tim Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

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



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