Prune is available to download from the downloads page, with the latest released version being version 11.1. Details of the development of version 12 will be given here as it progresses.
The list of features and improvements for version 12 has not been prepared yet. See the wishlist for new features which have been proposed by users of Prune.
| Language | Completion |
|---|---|
| English, German, Swiss German, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Italian | 100% |
| Polish | 1 missing |
| French, Portuguese | 96% |
| Chinese | 94% |
| Japanese | 89% |
| Turkish | 66% |
| Romanian | 28% |
| Afrikaans | 26% |
| Indonesian | 15% |
| Farsi | 10% |
| Slovak | 0% |
The translations of Prune are in greatly varying stages of completion. This table on the right summarizes the percentage of translations which are complete for each language, according to the development code. If you want to help with these translations, just have a look at the translation wiki, you don't even have to register if you don't want to.
The following credits also appear in the "About" screen of the Prune application, but it's worth repeating here - grateful thanks to all those who have helped contribute so far, by whatever means!
| Prune code written by : | activityworkshop.net |
| Exif code written by : | Drew Noakes (drewnoakes.com) |
| Some icons taken from : | Eclipse |
| SRTM data : | courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, usgs.gov |
| Cloudmade maps : | Openstreetmap and Cloudmade, cloudmade.com |
| Translators : | Ramon (ch), Miguel (es), Inés (es), Piotr (pl), Petrovsk (fr), Josatoc (it), weehal (pl), theYinYeti (fr), Rothermographer (ro), Sam (zh), Rudolph (af), nazotoko (ja), katpatuka (tr), Rémi (fr), Marcus (pt), Ali (fa), Javier (es), Jeroen (nl), prot_d (cz) |
| Technical feedback : | Piotr, freegeographytools, Rudolf, Steven, Jose, Jeshi, Denny, Thomas, Jozef, Gregor, Robert, Jani |
| Mac know-how : | Tyme, Daniel, Michael, Richard |
| Translations helped by : | Open Office, Gpsdrive, Babelfish, Leo, Launchpad |
| Development tools : | Mandriva Linux, Debian Linux, Sun Java, Eclipse IDE, Svn, Gimp, Inkscape, findbugs |
| Other tools : | Garble, Gpsbabel, Openstreetmap, Povray, Exiftool, Google Earth, Gnuplot |
| Thanks to : | Friends and loved ones, for encouragement and support |
This is more of a longer-term idea, to see if it would be possible to port the Prune code over to a C++/Qt implementation. That way it would be compiled into native, completely free code, and wouldn't need an extra jre to run. Plus the Mandriva team have offered to package it and maintain it in the official Mandriva repositories, making the download and install just a single command. Which would be very cool.
Of course it's still extremely early days on this, and so far there's only a little basic prototype which doesn't actually do anything yet. A laughably simple screenshot is shown here:
All it really demonstrates is the compilation into a GUI application, basic layout including menus and toolbar, and basic internationalization.
As an additional thought, maybe such an effort could use Python and Qt instead of C++ - but then it would just need a python runtime instead of a java one. Obviously such an undertaking would require a lot of effort to rework and redevelop the code and at the moment there's little incentive to start again.