speechd development future plans

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:46 PM, William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:40:06AM +0100, Bohdan R. Rau wrote:
>> ?On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:18:49 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
>> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:16:31PM +0100, Bohdan R. Rau wrote:
>> >> ?c) I personally don't like dependencies of buggy and obsolete
>> >> libraries
>> >> ?(like dotconf)
>> >
>> > Sorry to call you on this one, but I am the maintainer of dotconf.
>> > There
>> > have been no bugs reported to me, so I haven't had anything that
>> > needed
>> > to be fixed. As far as I know it is just stable, and definitely not
>> > obsolete or buggy.
>>
>> ?But some distributions (like Ubuntu) still uses old version (which is
>> ?of course buggy and obsolete) with some strange patches...
>
> That would be an issue with those distros, not with dotconf.
>
> The best way to handle that I think is to have people who use the
> distros that are using the old version report the new information to
> their maintainers.

Or to have speechd check for a minimum version required during
configure to ensure we have a known good version.

Peter