Re: gnome-speech and proprietory software synthesizers.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso themuso com>]

Hi Marc

At 10:51 PM 21/05/2004, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> The difficulties in gnome-speech are a bit complex - if you make a spec
> file that builds various gnome-speech packages, such as:

Actually, spec files do not concern me. I am a Slackware user. However, I 
do understand where you are coming from, as one usually uses bash scripts 
to build Slackware packages anyway, and this would bring up the same issue.

> gnome-speech
> gnome-speech-devel
> gnome-speech-java
> gnome-speech-festival
>
> etc...
>
> Using this sort of spec file, the source RPM will only build on a system
> where all the supported TTS engines are installed.  And since some of them
> are proprietary, the free distributions won't touch such a spec file or
> source rpm.  So if you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.  I'm a
> bit stumped on this issue.

The only thing I can think of is to possibly create one or more configure 
arguments or make targets to specifically build the proprietory drivers, so 
that third parties can package those gnome-speech drivers for others to use.

Hope this is of some help.

Luke