Re: Orca, liblouis and contracted braille support
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 09:15:14AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> The configure option in gnome-orca is only used to tell the build system
> if the louis orca C module should be built or not.
> The Python part of orca is written in a way that the louis module import
> is wrapped in a try/except block to dynamically detect if the
> module is present or not. This is just like it was done
> for brlapi support in orca.
>
> It didn't think gnome-orca-louis should be a soft dependency, it could
> rather be installed by default whenever a user installs gnome-orca,
> it would just be nice to split it out into its own package
> to avoid wasting quite a bit of archive space.
That's the right way to implement it, and the Orca developers have (according
to your description above) correctly checked for the actual presence of the
library.
I'm confident that John Boyer, the author of liblouis, will sort out the
licencing problem.
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