Release tarballs on github

[posophe]

Hello !

First of all, thanks for the openephyra resurrection, it's very useful. I just have one request : actually, I'm working on Sirius and I would like to know if you plan to release tarballs. It would make my life so much easier ;-).

Regards.
Benjamin

[TScottJ]

Hi Benjamin! Sorry for the late reply, I'm busy with a bunch of other things now, and neglected to check my github notifications for a while. :) I don't have any plans to release tarballs, and as you can see from my lack of activity here, I've not been involved much with the project in over a year. But if you or anyone wants to do that, by all means, go for it.

Cheers!

• Scott

[posophe]

Thanks for your answer. In fact, I'm working on Sirius and, as you said, because of the lack of openephyra maintenance, I'm looking for an drop-in replacement, or an alternative. Do you have an idea ? Cause I can't maintain it myself :-(

[TScottJ]

Hmm, what is it you're looking for exactly? I will check with my former staff who took over the QA/NLP work we were doing at OpenCog, see what he's using now. We used OpenEphyra for one of the robotics demos we did (having the robot answer questions using OpenEphyra's lookup), but after that it seems nobody is using it. Poor thing keeps getting orphaned. :)

[posophe]

Well, thanks you :-). Sirius is using the Wikipedia database through openephyra Q&A framework. Actually, I asked Sirius upstream if he planned to maintain ephyra himself or if he's looking for an alternative cause, as you can imagine, ephyra is not easily maintainable in a package regarding it numerous obsolete dependencies.

[posophe]

Ping ?

[vivektiwari1986]

@posophe Did you find an alternative to OpenEphyra? I have got OpenEphyra to work as a script. But unable to get it working via the JAR API. Seems like a jar library dependency is causing issue (minorthird.jar)

[posophe]

Hi !
Actually, the guy in charge of lucida is looking at yodaqa. As I'm actually working on Maven, I can't be more involved in as I would like. Stay in touch ! See claritylab/lucida#89