good catch -- I'm still going through the Makefile and cleaning
up stuff -- the sawfish stuff will indeed go away from the
install rules.
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Steve> Actually, I have a package build script now that pulls
Steve> most current version of emacspeak from the new git
Steve> repo. So that part is coming along but I do have
Steve> another problem however...
Steve>
Steve> During the "make install", I get errors about
Steve> sawfish/*.jl not being found. When I looked around a
Steve> bit, I noticed that the sawfish stuff is in obsolete
Steve> now. Shouldn't the install: recipe be modified to not
Steve> install sawfish?
Steve>
Steve> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 07:34:54PM -0700, T. V. Raman
Steve> wrote:
>> the emacspeak-svn package you are likely refering to on
>> github was a mirror of the googlecode svn repo that
>> someone else had created. Am sure things will catch up
>> once the announcement has perculated through the various
>> networks. >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Holmes
>> <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Steve> This is good news indeed. I like git but could learn a
Steve> lot more about development in a git environment.
Steve>
Steve> Note to Arch Linux users: I plan to build an
Steve> emacspeak-git package to place in the AUR within the
Steve> next day or so. This will make it easier for Arch
Steve> package users to pull emacspeak from git in the
Steve> future. Someone else owns the emacspeak-svn package in
Steve> AUR but I would think that package would eventually go
Steve> away since svn will no longer be used here.
Steve>
Steve> Thanks again for such a neat package for emacs.
Steve>
Steve> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 03:39:08PM +0000, T. V. Raman
Steve> wrote:
>> >> Emacspeak Development Is Moving To GitHub
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 1 Summary:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Emacspeak development is moving from Google Code
>> Hosting >> to GitHub. If you have been running from the
>> SVN >> repository, I recommend you switch to the GitHub
>> version >> by executing:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> git clone https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak.git make
>> >> config make -j
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> If using Outloud TTS:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> cd servers/linux-outloud && make
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> If using Espeak TTS:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> cd servers/linux-espeak && make
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> After this, all you should need to stay up to date is a
>> >> periodic
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> git pull; make config; make
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2 A Brief History
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The first five years of Emacspeak development used a
>> local >> RCS repository on my home machine (1994
>> -1999). The first >> few releases of Emacspeak were
>> distributed through the Web >> site and FTP server at
>> Digital Research; they were also >> mirrored at
>> Cornell. After moving to Adobe Systems in the >> fall of
>> 1995, Emacspeak was distributed exclusively >> through my
>> Web page on the Cornell CS Department Web >> server, which
>> also hosted my personal Web site. In 2000, I >> created
>> Emacspeak On SourceForge
>> >>
>> >> and used that site for both hosting the Emacspeak
>> source >> code as well as the Web site -- coincidentally,
>> I lost the >> ability to update my Web site at Cornell CS
>> around the >> same time.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Over time it became harder and harder to publish new >>
>> Emacspeak releases through the SourceForge >>
>> interface. Luckily, Google Code Hosting came along a few
>> >> months after I joined Google, and moving the source
>> code >> repository to Google Code SVN was a no-brainer. My
>> friend >> and colleague Fitz helped me migrate the 5+
>> years of CVS >> history to SVN; this meant that the source
>> code repository >> on Google Code also recorded all of the
>> development >> history that had been built up on
>> Sourceforge. Now, it's >> time to move to GitHub. I've
>> been using Git for most of my >> work the last few years,
>> but was simply too lazy to move >> Emacspeak development
>> from SVN to Git on GoogleCode. But >> over time, the
>> advantages present in Git as a source >> control system
>> and GitHub as a hosting service have >> increased --
>> primary among these -- a rich set of Emacs >> tools that
>> have been written to leverage the GitHub >> API. For Git
>> integration in Emacs, my personal preference >> is package
>> Magit available through Elpa --
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Mx package-install magit in Emacs.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The GitHub Web site itself is fairly heavy-weight in
>> terms >> of its use of scripting, ie performing all
>> operations >> through the github.com Web site from within
>> Emacs is >> fairly unpleasant. But the afore-mentioned
>> GitHub API >> makes this a non-issue at this point with
>> respect to the >> type of workflow I prefer. So this week,
>> I did the work to >> migrate Emacspeak development to
>> Emacspeak On GitHub.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 3 Status Of Migration
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> With help from some of the kind folk at Google Code >>
>> Hosting, I've successfully migrated the source code >>
>> repository including all release tags to GitHub. I am now
>> >> checking in changes into GitHub; the SVN repository on
>> >> Google Code Hosting is now frozen, and I do not plan to
>> >> make any commits there. I presently have no immediate
>> >> plans to start using features of GitHub like the Issue
>> >> Tracker; for now we will continue to use the Emacspeak
>> >> mailing list which has served us well for 20 years. I
>> have >> also taken this opportunity to prune out legacy
>> portions >> of the Emacspeak codebase by moving modules to
>> obsolete at >> each level of the directory tree. Since
>> starting the >> Emacspeak Blog in late 2005, I have
>> published a sequence >> of articles describing Emacspeak
>> features and usage >> patterns; I felt that having these
>> articles for local >> reference made a useful supplement
>> to the emacspeak online >> documentation. Toward this end,
>> I have downloaded all >> articles published so far and
>> checked in both XML and HTML >> versions into
>> sub-directory blogs. Note that newer >> articles are also
>> available as .org files under >> sub-directory
>> announcements.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 4 Next Steps
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I still need to learn how to do software releases on >>
>> GitHub.
>> >>
>> >> Share And Enjoy!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Date: <2015-03-06 Fri>
>> >>
>> >> Author: raman
>> >>
>> >> Created: 2015-03-07 Sat 08:12
>> >>
>> >> Emacs 25.0.50.1 (Org mode 8.2.10)
>> >>
>> >> Validate
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Posted By TV Raman to EMACSPEAK The Complete Audio
>> Desktop >> at 3/09/2015 08:39:00 AM
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