Re: [orca-list] Flag day for Orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Ashely:

We currently don't have the resources to make nightly binary packages 
available.  However, you can pull and build the Orca sources by 
following the directions at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.

The one change I would make would be to run autogen.sh with the 
following option:

./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/bld

This will tell things to install Orca under the 'bld' directory of your 
workspace.  You can then run Orca using ./bld/bin/orca when you're 
sitting in the directory where you ran the autogen.sh command.

If none of the above makes sense, then you might be better off waiting 
for a binary release to hit the streets.

Will

ashley wrote:
> Hi Will:
>
> I think this is a great idea. Is there any chance you could provide a 
> .deb package of the release of orca with the changes? I'm not a 
> programer (yet) but i'm happy to test.
>
>
>
> thanks very much.
>
> ashley
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: <Orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:49 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Flag day for Orca
>
>
> > Hi All:
> >
> > We're making some needed structural changes to the Orca code base that
> > will have an impact on the speech generators, the braille generators,
> > and the where am I code.
> >
> > Ideally, this will not have an immediate impact on you as a user. That
> > is, Orca should continue to provide you with the same presentation of
> > information that you were getting before these changes.  These changes,
> > however, enable users to change the contents and ordering of what Orca
> > presents, and also allows users to specify different voices to be used
> > for different content with very fine granularity.  This also opens the
> > door for adding audio cues down the road.  We plan on using this to
> > improve the performance of Orca as well.
> >
> > So...what does this mean to you?
> >
> > 1) These changes are for the current development release.  They will not
> > be backported to any stable releases.  So, that means you will only see
> > them on the master branch and they will only go into GNOME 2.27.x
> > releases and beyond.  They will not be put into GNOME 2.26.x releases or
> > earlier.
> >
> > 2) We're still very early in the GNOME 2.27/2.28 release cycle, so this
> > is the appropriate time for us to make these kinds of changes.  As we
> > make these changes, we do lots of testing.  These are substantial
> > changes, however, so breakages may have accidentally snuck in.  My
> > apologies in advance for those issues.  With your patient testing and
> > constructive feedback, we will identify and fix the problems before the
> > GNOME 2.28 release this fall.
> >
> > 3) The first phase (the speech generator refactor) was checked in to the
> > master branch less than an hour ago.  This means that those of you
> > pulling from git will see the changes the next time you pull.  If you
> > are someone who pulls from git and uses the master branch, please help
> > us by testing with the latest code and providing your constructive
> > feedback. Ideally, you should notice NO DIFFERENCES.
> >
> > 4) We're not ready to write docs or teach you how to modify the
> > formatting yet.  When we're done with all the phases, we hope to write
> > something up for you to use.  Please don't ask us how to customize your
> > environment until we are done with all the phases.
> >
> > For the Orca team,
> >
> > Will
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at 
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Netiquette Guidelines are at 
> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
>
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