Daemon

One of our GSoC project ideas is for a daemon mode; this page collects ideas and suggestions to the potential implementor of this.

Background

Apertium is implemented as a set of separate programs, each performing their individual tasks separately, communicating in the usual Unix pipeline manner.

Each linguistic package contains a 'modes' XML file, which specifies which programs are invoked, in which order, and specifies the parameters and datafiles specific to that language pair. Each language pair can contain a number of modes; most of these are used for debugging each stage of the pipeline. At the moment, the modes are converted to a shell script, which is called by the apertium script.