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On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:23:55 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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William -- |
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Thanks VERY much for asking here. Seeing the post on -dev, I wanted (as is often the case) to reply, but... :( |
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This is much better: Here, "no replies" could be taken as a pretty good sign no one cares. ;-) |
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> we have several open bugs on app-accessibility/festival and |
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> So, if there are not any |
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> objections, I am considering removing festival from the main gentoo |
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> portage tree. |
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I was trying to use it with Asterisk until I hit a file collision error. So, maybe look for another bug report soon... I just started emerging the latest keyword-masked version, so maybe this is fixed already. Nope. |
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As for espeak... |
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http://asterisk-espeak.sourceforge.net/ ... not for 1.6.x (current) Asterisk. |
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So, I think Festival is still the only option for this. Perhaps it'd be good to know for sure before you decide to mothball, or give up maintenance of the ebuilds. |
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As for "upstream" development, it looks like they are busy. Is three years really so long not to do a release for something that (apparently) works? |
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Looking at the mailing list archives, I see developers posting this year. |
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Short of an announcement that the project is abandoned, why are you eager to reap it? Developers are totally allowed to ignore distro packagers -- particularly academics in the summertime, no? |
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Are other distros dropping it? |
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> So, what I'm trying to figure out is how popular festival is and what |
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> it is being used for. If you use festival, can you reply to this |
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> thread and give me an idea of how important this package is to you |
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> and how often you use it, etc? |
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Anyway, for my purposes and from what I can see, it is simply needed in the tree. And somehow I need to fix this file collision before I can even install it. |
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Thanks again for asking. |
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Cheers, |
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