Hi there,
Sorry for black-out -- I've been in orbit for too long; I haven't been
lazying though, and I missed you all ;-)
Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Version 3.5 of BRLTTY will have a speech driver module for Festival Lite.
> This module links dynamically against the quite large (6MB or so) festival
> lite library. Now, I am pondering how to go about this new module. I
> basically
> see two approach:
[...]
> Any opinions?
I also think BRLTTY shouldn't depend on synth' -- 3.5 may live in
exp. until a good solution is found. But I wonder if the better
wouldn't be to put flite stuff in, and simply make a "Recommends"
relation w/ flite plus warn user via debconf/README. Would it be
even possible (I mean: is such a package installable, regarding shlibs
and related)?
On the other hand, you may also consider BRLTTY+Flite as another way of
bringing a11y, by starting a new pkg (brltty-flite) w/ full 3.5,
letting "BRLTTY only" alone behind. I guess something in some way
similar happened w/ exim / exim4, apache / apache2, and so on. This
is probably more elegant, and better reflects upstream new
orientation.
You may also ask upstream to split things for you, to let packaging
quite reasonable.
Anyway, BRLTTY may need a sacrifice: I think such overlaps should be
particularly clear(er) for users, even if it implies splitting 7kb
pieces. To be honest, I currently don't really know what my BRLTTY
can do after having provided me w/ Braille (it could make tea I won't
even know it...).
So, I'd personnaly vote for the upstream reflect, even if I'll have to
stay beside until I come up w/ some synth' ;-) It sounds more serious
and the most elegant solution, regarding both Debian and upstream.
But maybe you shouldn't give up the simplest, "blind'ish" solution
(brltty_3.5 w/ a Recommonds: flite) if compliant.
ps.: oh I know, what about libs?... Well, they have to closely follow
what they were provided w/, haven't they? So no surprise w/ a
libbrltty-flite-api -- no matter.
Thanks
--
Boris Daix
"In Freedom We Trust" (IFWT)
(C) 2003 by Boris Daix ;-)
