speakup version 3.1.0 is out.

Alonzo cuellar mariachiac at aim.com
Wed Jun 17 17:40:00 EDT 2009


hello,

I downloaded the latest changes from git and then issued make clean
I then did make modules_install and I still see speakup3.05. Do I need to do something else?
Alonzo


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:32:04PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Hello everybody: We have just tagged version 3.1.0 of speakup.  This
> release is the result of our modifying speakup to support i18n or
> international language support.  Of course, we don't have any i18n
> strings or messages available yet but that's where you all come in.
>
> We have also started moving speakup towards what will be it's new home
> in the sysfs or /sys file system.  Now all speakup's parameters are
> available in /sys/accessibility/speakup and below.  The i18n string
> files are in guess where? i18n/ and synth specific parameters are in
> the synth name subdirectory such as soft/ or ltlk/.  One advantage
> from our perspective of making this move is it will allow some files
> to be modified by the user instead of by root.  The hardware synth
> support will eventually move to another location but for now it seems
> happy where we've placed it.
>
> The speakupconf script for those of you that use it has been modified
> to support the new quarters and has itself moved to a new home in a
> tools subdirectory of the speakup tree because we've taken on it's
> responsibility for maintenance.  The talkwith script of Chuck's will
> need to be modified and sent back to us but I understand Chuck has
> already been contacted about that.
>
> If any of you are interested in providing language strings for your
> favourite mother tongue please take copies of the files in
> /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n and edit those to reflect the new
> strings.  You can then send them to this list or any of the core team
> members for inclusion in a future speakup release.
>
> This has been a pretty significant set of changes to the core code so
> there may be many little wigglies which need to be squished before it
> is really stable.  However we have tested much of it and hopefully
> caught most of the big bugs.  I think that William Hubbs and Chris
> Brannon have done some amazing work getting this done as quickly as
> they have and want to thank them very much.
>
>   Kirk
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