Re: Online translation tool?

[Dwayne Bailey <dwayne translate org za>]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:07 +0300, Alexandru Szasz wrote:
> Pootle runs as a server (rather hard to integrate) and because it
> reads po's from the hdd, many users can really put a load on the
> server.

Have you actually run a Pootle server?

Pootle has a lot of functionality for web-based translation but it draws
a lot of its ability from the Translate Toolkit (which isn't a server).
Our current efforts are seeing much of that pushed into the Toolkit and
actually someone could relatively easily create an offline translation
editor with the Translate Toolkit as a backend.

Yes it doesn't use a database and parses files into memory (although
we're caching much data in a database in current development work).  But
of the people who use the system we have no complaints and of those
who've stress tested it, they actually contributed performance fixes.  I
guess what I'm saying is that performance issues are a nice theory and
easily worked around when found by pushing data into a database...

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Dwayne Bailey
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