Today I have started to write a catalog add-on to save catalogs in plain text for easy translation. I’ve spent some time looking at the involved C++ classes, and here is what I found.
A catalog is a collection of strings, stored as <hash,value> pairs. It is used in the locale kit to translate the text in an application to the system language at runtime. When an application starts, it asks the locale roster to find its catalog and return it back.
As you may have read recently, I’ve had to withdraw from the code drive this summer. Luckily, another student has stepped up to take over my spot. I hope his project is a success and that I’ll be able to jump back in later in the summer.
I’ve had to reorganize my priorities because I was accepted into an REU program in which I’ll do graduate style research for the summer.
I am a BTech 4th year student at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
I will be working on implementing a FUSE based filesystem for BFS so that BFS partitions can be mounted natively in Linux and other POSIX operating systems.
I enjoy building systems like these where the final outcome is really interesting to watch and useful. I will be keeping the community updated regarding the progress in this blog.
These two weeks I’ve been quite busy with other things, so the project didn’t move as much as I wanted. However, I managed to get the catalog engine to internationalize an app for the first time. It’s not a big application, just a very simple Hello World test program. And the lack of a tool for translating catalogs means I had to edit them by hand to get the translation done.
I got the kernel to boot “a bit” ;) but since u-boot does not pass the kernel arguments when loading with loadelf I had to fake some kernel arguments etc.. So it’s not realy a working system but serial out works ;) (input does not work yet :( ) and I can see some stuff on my screen.. The kernel runs on a emulated gumstix verdex since there is no emulator for the gumsitx overo we will use and the beagleboard emulator did not really work (no sd card support for example)
Hi, I’m Ankur Sethi. I’m a first year Information Technology student at Indraprastha University, New Delhi. I will be working on a full text indexing and search application for Haiku Code Drive 2009.
I use Mac OS X as my primary OS. Before I switched to the Mac, I had been an Ubuntu user for four solid years. I first read about Haiku on OSNews back in 2007 (my profile says my account is 1 year 36 weeks old), and I was hooked.
Hello Haiku World, I’m Tom Fairfield and I’ve been chosen to work on a project for the Code Drive this summer. You’ll see me around IRC and elsewhere as fairfieldt or AntiRush. I’m a 4th year computer science major at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
I’ve been interested in operating system development for quite some time and Haiku is a great looking project in that regard.
The project I proposed and was chosen to complete is a Network Services Kit for Haiku.
The work on the Locale Kit as part of the Summer of Code has already started :) This week we have been working on proper integration of my work in the Haiku tree. So you can now checkout Haiku from svn and get the Locale Kit as part of it. Of course, some parts are still broken (or not yet written), but some of the tests seems to be already working.
Just thought we’d let you know that, Haiku-Files is now hosting GCC4 builds of Haiku in both RAW and VM image formats.
You can obtain these builds in the usual directories and we’ve updated the RSS feeds as well.
We’ve also fixed the VMX file that is distributed with the pre-alpha images to have the correct virtual hard disk name. Sorry for this oversight, I wasn’t aware of it, until I was playing around with VMware Fusion last night.
Greetings one and all! I am Obaro Ogbo, one of the students selected for GSoC 2009. I also use the name nastee on irc and on Haiku Bug Tracker. I am a 3rd year student of Computer Science and Technology at Bells University of Technology Ota, Nigeria, and it appears I’m the first ever Nigerian GSoC student :-).
I began programming with Java, then learnt C before studying C++. I’ve done little PHP and Perl coding, however I’m learning Lisp presently.
