Re: [orca-list] Announcing Orca v3.7.4

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

The only issue I have about arch is of security and also that it can't 
be used for day to day work.
I wonder how often one breaks a system in arch, preventing it to be a 
regular prime time distro.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 01/15/2013 03:27 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> I think that even with ubuntu 12.10 you don't,.
> What I did was move to arch, as suggested in this message.
> The problem is that the arch requires the user to have some knowledge 
> of the system and some settings are not as automated as in ubuntu.
> Moreover the existing documentation is very good in my opinion.
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 01/15/2013 07:41 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > Hi Krishnakant,
> >
> > Quick answer is you don't. Ubuntu 12.04 is too far out of date to run
> > Orca 3.7.4. Basically, if you want it we are talking about compiling
> > Gnome 3.6, possibly Gnome 3.7, upgrading to Python 3, and building all
> > the Python dependencies Orca needs. If you want bleeding edge builds
> > of Orca pick a different distribution like Arch which has a rolling
> > release for Gnome etc which is better for development and bleeding
> > edge testing of Gnome. Ubuntu while decent for a stable day to day
> > distribution is not great for bleeding edge testing of Gnome and Orca
> > without doing a lot of custom compiling and installing everything
> > yourself.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > On 1/15/13, Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:
> > > Great work.
> > > So what do I need to compile this version on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.
> > > I am getting an error on GTK+ not properly installed.
> > > It asks for a version which seems to be not there.
> > > Kindly help.
> > > Happy hacking.
> > > Krishnakant.
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