[orca-list] Ttsynth/Ibmtts will no longer work, as of Ubuntu hardy 8.04.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso themuso com>]

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Greetings all.
I am writing to inform you all, that as of Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, to be released in April next year, the 
Ttsynth/Ibmtts speech synthesizer will no longer work, due to a library that it depends on, having been 
removed from 
the Ubuntu archives. This library was a left over piece from the gcc 2.95 and glibc 2.2 toolchain, that was 
kept in 
ubuntu for compatibility reasons. It is actually a wonder that it has stayed around this long.

I appreciate the fact that there are many of you out there that use this synth daily, however this decision 
was out 
of my hands, and it is a matter for the vendors to sort out. I would encourage users of this synth to contact 
the 
vendor from which you purchased your license, to ask them for a proper resolution to this issue. The library 
that 
ttsynth/ibmtts currently depends on is libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, which is the library that was removed from 
Ubuntu 
hardy.

Thanks in advance for your understanding.

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Luke Yelavich
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Email & MSN: themuso themuso com
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