GSoC:Week 2 Update - Nithin Saji

I ran into some problems with virtualenvs last week and it took a quite a bit of time identifying and fixing the issue. I use powerline with tmux, vim and zsh and it’s realy useful as I work mostly from a terminal and my window manager doesn’t provide a taskbar. Powerline requires $PYTHONPATH to be set explicitly and archlinux comes with python3 as default, this can lead to problem’s with python2 apps. This was a non issue in the beginning as I work inside a virtualenv. However I was working with a module which required cairo and pycairo doesen’t play well with virtualenvs and it was trying to use systems pycairo module. This resulted in my systems python3 sitepackages path getting included in python path of the virtualenvs. Apart from this I also managed to do some permanant damage to my virtualenvs by force installing some packages. After finally figuring out what’s wrong I ended up setting python path in the individual programs confs, nuked .virtualenvwrapper directory and went for a clean install.

So here is the porting tasks current status,

TODO dhwani
TODO webfonts
TODO katapayadi numbers
DONE fortune
DONE text similarity
DONE stemmer
DONE shingling
DONE sort
DONE complex script rendere
DONE approxsearch
DONE dictionary
DONE guesslang
DONE payyans
DONE spellcheck
DONE transliterate
DONE hyphenate
DONE syllabalize
DONE ngram
DONE soundex
DONE chardetails

I have got the basic python packages and templates for the above modules, I still have to write unit tests, write proper documentation and go through the templates once again so that everything is consistent.Also I have to decide on names so that these can be released on pypi.