Re: [orca-list] Pointers on starting orca development contributions?

[Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien Hinderer ens-lyon org>]

Hello,

Coming in late, sorry.

Jason White via orca-list (2020/12/28 15:40 -0500):
> On 12/28/20 3:30 PM, Dan Miner via orca-list wrote:
> > The thing I would really like to know is how to run orca from a source
> > tree confidently knowing it’s not reaching into my distro’s version
> > (MATE 20.10, orca 3.38.0). I’ve not tried to compile it yet but I’m
> > hoping getting the dev libraries from the distro’s orca will suffice.
> You can set --prefix=directory-name when you run ./configure. Then, "make
> install" will install Orca into the directory you specify (e.g., somewhere
> under $HOME).

Given that Orca is written in Python, wouldn't it be doable to run it
directly from sources, without even having to install it, being locally?

Thanks,

Sébastien.