[arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependancy on eSpeak

[brent s.]

On 2/13/19 6:24 PM, Levente Polyak via arch-general wrote:
>> really?
>>
>> the section i linked to claims this:
>>
>> "The espeak speak_lib.h include file is located in
>> espeak-ng/speak_lib.h
>> *with an optional symlink in espeak/speak_lib.h*. This file *contains
>> the espeak 1.48.15 API*, with a change to the ESPEAK_API macro to fix
>> building on Windows and some minor changes to the documentation
>> comments. *This C API is API and ABI compatible with espeak.*"
>> (emphasis
>> added)
>>
>> granted, we have espeak 1.48.04 in [community], but 1.48.15's been
>> development status since 2015[0]. i have a hard time imagining that
>> 1.48.04's API and ABI have had breaking changes on what seems to be a
>> single patch level release, and one four years old at that.
>>
>>
>>
>> [0] http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html
> 
> Then I'm sorry to tell you that's indeed the case.
> Look at espeak package history, the epoch is
> there for a reason. It was tried to be a drop in
> replacement before and had to be reverted.
> 
> I still have plans to transform espeak back to the
> NG variant, but that needs a bit of time, staging
> and planning. For time being you need to accept
> it doesn't work that easily. 
> 

well that is *incredibly* disheartening and surprising. thanks for the
helpful response, levente.

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brent saner
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