Re: [orca-list] Difference In Voxin Versions



Hi,

I can't tell you specifics as to exactly what has been updated in the new version, but basically I think mostly changes are in distros and releases that are supported, i.e. each new voxin version supports newer releases of popular Linux distros. I bought two languages back in 2010 or 2011 at the latest mostly because espeak is not at all easy to listen to in Spanish, almost unusable at higher speeds for many users, (maybe most native and or fluent Spanish speakers); and as the price is so reasonable I grabbed English at the same time. The version I bought would not install on the Vinux 3.0 based on Ubuntu 10.04 I wanted to use it with. I tried several times taking in to account the suggestions I received from Vinux and or Voxin users. A few months later I tried again, but after updating to the newest voxin release, and all was well. It appeared that I'd not done anything wrong. Something was updated and/or fixed in voxin. Ubuntu 10.04 and Vinux 3.0 were very new when I first tried Voxin, (was for sure 2010 when I bought voxin/first tried installing it thinking about it a bit more); and I've heard of similar cases.

Do not worry about any versions you may not have ever downloaded. Usually the latest is indeed the greatest. I have read lists of what is supported, and was impressed by how quickly new Linux flavors were added.

RC means release candidate, i.e. if no major bugs are reported, and things generally work as the software writer's thought they would then the RC is accepted as ready for prime time as it were and with few  if any changes is renamed to the appropriate name/number.

Some more complex programs or some thing like a Linux distro may have quite a few release candidates if there is a pesky bug, but generally devs try and get it right before pinning the rc on the end and after a more or less predetermined  testing period call there work an official release if no problems occur.

Just to give a bit of perspective: traditionally when software is almost ready for the mainstream user testing versions are made available either to a select group of people, (private testing) or to anyone who wishes to try the program. If there is still a bit of work to do to get things stable and as bug free as practical the testing version is called an alpha release. If it is mostly good to go as far as the developers know, i.e. features working as expected and few known bugs are rearing there ugly heads the software will be called a beta release. Finally, once the bugs that can be fixed have been fixed and the developers either feel good about their work or are tired of working on the program in question we get the rc.

One man or woman's alpha version may be another's beta, and public alphas are not so common as public betas, and not all software is ready for the street even when a release is called official. Sometime it is about time, and devs keep to a schedule for personal or economic reasons.

To sum up a a testing cycle we have one or more of the following in this order; alpha, beta, rc and then the official release. There can be 1 or more of any of these.

Lastly some software uses even numbers for official releases and odd ones for testing versions; oldschool, but it lives on in some cases.

Hth

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B.H.           

On 07-Aug-20 12:30, Glenn K0LNY wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me the difference between Voxin 2.2 and voxin-enu-3.1rc2?
My downloads went from one to the other, and seems like there is possibly a version in-between, going by the numbers.
And what is the RC for?
Thanks.
 
Glenn



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