Re: [orca-list] grade 2 braille again

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Daniel:

Yeah!  I'm sooooooo glad that you were able to get this resolved.

For the reasoning around using liblouis, it was an informed decision 
based upon discussions with people across the industry, including the 
BrlTTY team.

Will

Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:58:16PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Daniel:
>
> Hi Will,
>
> > > > I tested this with Orca from trunk, liblouis 1.5.2, and BrlTTY 3.9 on 
> > > > my  OpenSolaris 2008.11 b109 box (GNOME 2.24.2) using the UEBC-g2.ctb 
> > > > table.   These are the versions of liblouis and BrlTTY that we test 
> > > > with and use on OpenSolaris.  Being a bit more on the conservative 
> > > > side, we also try make sure they function properly before unleashing 
> > > > them on unsuspecting users.  :-)  Things seemed to work fine and as 
> > > > expected. No crashes.
> > I spent the past couple hours updating the OpenSolaris spec files to get  
> > BrlTTY 3.10 and liblouis 1.6.0 to build/compile/install.  I used Orca  
> > from trunk and UEBC-g2 as the contraction table.  Things work fine and  
>
> Thanks very much.
> It confirms that brltty isn't the problem, so it must be my version of
> liblouis...
>
> I'm very sorry, because after I ran
> find /usr | grep liblouis
> and rm all the resulting paths, then reinstalled liblouis everything
> worked as expected! I feel like a total idiot now, but I think there
> were multiple .so files that were causing trouble...
>
> Anyway it's all working now, so thanks very much!
>
> One other thing, I have noticed a couple of minor errors in the
> contraction table of liblouis, however, I've already addressed these
> bugs in brltty. So, why do we have two contraction libraries, liblouis
> and brltty? Wouldn't it be better to just use one of them, perhaps
> brltty directly from orca?
>
> What was the reason with going with liblouis?
>
> Just curious more than anything...
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel.