L10n:Silme

Silme is a l10n library written in python.

Overview

Silme is a library focused on improving the experience of developing localization related applications and web applications.

Features

• Format neutrality which allows easy lossless import and export between various l10n formats.
• I/O neutrality which allows easy read/write from/to files, jar packages, mysql databases and revision control systems.
• Easy diff generator which allows to build and apply smart diffs between different localizations.

Releases

• Silme 0.5 - released on May 11th 2009
  • Silme 0.5.1 - released on June 3rd 2009
• Silme 0.7 - released in July 2009
• Silme 0.8 - released on October 4th 2009
• Silme 0.9 - planned for end of May 2010
• Silme 1.0 - planned for ???
• Silme 1.1 - planned for ???

Tutorial

• Concepts
• Setting up environment
• Entity and EntityList
• L10nObject and L10nPackage
• File, SVN, SQL
• DTD, Properties, gettext, HTML, XLIFF
• Diffing between objects, packages
• Logging
• Command line example
• Webtool example
• GUI example
• Tips and tricks

Scripts/Examples

• Tools using silme that can be used as examples

Sources

• http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n/silme

Wishlist

• Silme:Wishlist