zanata-client mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

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• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• zanata-cli

Projektgeschichte

Zanata was built as a browser-based translation system for documentation and software localization, with a REST API, translation memory, and workflows for formats such as PO files and DocBook/Publican documentation. The platform README says projects can be uploaded to and downloaded from a Zanata server using either a Maven plugin or a command-line client.

The old `zanata-client` repository now states that Zanata source code moved to `zanata-platform`. The platform README notes that repositories such as zanata-api, zanata-client, zanata-common, zanata-parent, and zanata-server were merged before 2016-10-20, turning the CLI into one module inside the larger platform source tree.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Zanata saw adoption in Fedora and Red Hat-adjacent localization workflows. Fedora's Zanata translation instructions told contributors to download a project `zanata.xml`, run `zanata-cli pull` to get source and translated files, and run `zanata-cli push` to upload translations back to the server.

That adoption later declined. Fedora's Zanata removal change says most Fedora projects migrated to Weblate and that the old translation platform needed to be removed because the community should not have to contribute in multiple places and nobody assumed Zanata maintenance.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use combines a user config file with a project `zanata.xml`. Maintainers initialize a translation project, push source content, and pull translated content from a Zanata server; translators can work in the web UI while developers keep source trees synchronized from the command line.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Zanata Client is package-nerd significant as a localization build-pipeline tool. It is not an end-user app; it is the glue between source repositories, translation servers, PO/Publican-style document formats, and release engineering.

Its history also captures a common packaging afterlife: a once-important ecosystem CLI remains packaged even after a community migrates to another service, because old documentation builds and long-lived downstream projects may still need it.

Zeitleiste

• 2012: Opensource.com described Zanata as an open-source Java translation platform with REST APIs and command-line tools.
• 2016-10-20: Zanata platform README marks the point before which pull-request references belonged to the old split repositories, including zanata-client.
• 2018: FreeBSD FreshPorts added zanata-cli as the Java command-line client for pushing and pulling Zanata content.
• 2020: Fedora Zanata removal planning documented the migration of most Fedora projects to Weblate.

Related projects

• Related projects include Zanata Platform, Zanata Maven Plugin, zanata-python-client, Weblate, Transifex, gettext, PO files, Publican, and Fedora localization tooling.

Quellen

• https://docs.zanata.org/en/release/client/
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Zanata_removal
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Translate_on_Zanata
• https://opensource.com/life/12/11/zanata-new-open-source-translation-platform
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zanata/zanata-client/master/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zanata/zanata-platform/master/README.md
• https://www.freshports.org/devel/zanata-cli/