Bug#712026: transcriber review
Il 12/08/2013 09:41, Paul Wise ha scritto:
> A new blocker:
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> The upstream website contains this text:
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> New! Jul 11 Transcriber has been superseded by TranscriberAG: see
> http://transag.sourceforge.net/!
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> I wonder if it would be best to replace Transcriber with TranscriberAG
> in Debian. TranscriberAG uses GTK+ and C++ instead of Tcl/Tk.
In my opinion it is not:
1) neither Transcriber nor TranscriberAG are very active upstream, but I would define Transcriber as quite stable while TranscriberAG is still in alpha stage;
2) TranscriberAG is not a real replacement for Transcriber (I.e., it cannot modify .trs files, that are used in a lot of pipelines of people working with audio annotation);
3) Transcriber has an uglier interface, but very functional (even more than TranscriberAG).
This said, TranscriberAG has the potentiality to become a very good software (it has a better annotation format, a modern GUI, it annotates both audio and video) and
eventually become a good replacement for Transcriber, but given the current development state, I do not think it will become such software soon.
This discussion raised several times during the last two years, so I published this repository:
https://github.com/giuliopaci/transcriber-ag-debian
It is my first attempt to create a TranscriberAG package, before giving up. The package source are in a very bad shape, but, just in case someone wants to work on it, at
least compiles everything and install most of the files in the correct location.
Bests,
Giulio.
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