Re: [orca-list] Flag day for Orca

["ashley" <ash cox talktalk net>]

thanks, i'll give it a go.

ashley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "ashley" <ash cox talktalk net>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Flag day for Orca


> 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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> > > 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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