Virtaal on Fedora: not just yet, but soon'ish

I've just completed getting python-Levenshtein packaged for Fedora, it's currently being pushed to Fedora 9 you can help by testing and commenting on the package.

Now Levenshtein is not needed by any of our tools, although they definately benefit from having it as fuzzy matching is way faster.  But what this has helped me do is get a grip on the packaging process within Fedora.  Its pretty neat once you know what to do but between FAS, Koji, Bodhi, Plague, etc it can get confusing.

My target is to get Pootle and Virtaal packaged for Fedora, first off though will be Virtaal.  That journey requires that we first package the Translate Toolkit, version 1.1.1 has been packaged for Fedora 10, but we need 1.2 for the latest Pootle and Virtaal.

Its a long journey but the end result should be that Fedora users will be able to simply go:

yum install virtaal
yum install pootle

and enjoy our localisation tools without the pain.