Re: [Emacspeak] Phasing out the Mac speech server?

[Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this got a bit confused because swiftmac 2 broke compatibility with the 
python mac server.

So to be clear:

1. Adding swiftmac 2.x support does not require touching the python mac server 
   or supporting code in any way.
2. Swiftmac 2.x will need some new settings as it has incompatible values from 
   the python mac server, for example range value the mac default rate takes is
   an integer and not compatible with the 0.0 to 1.0 float that swiftmac now 
   requires.
3. The above will be done by switching on the server selection of swiftmac and 
   and then calling swiftmac-configure-tts and using / setting up any swiftmac 
   specific defcustom of defvar's.
4. The intent is to keep these changes very boxed in to a few changes to like 
   voice setup and mac-voices (to add a swiftmac-configure-tts). 

Lets make sure we don't conflate the adding of proper complete swiftmac support
with the removal of the old python mac server. 


> On Apr 17, 2024, at 10:32, T.V Raman (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> A lot of this sounds  like highly corporate busy work, and I intend to
> do none of that -- or at least not yet.
> 
> 1. The next Emacspeak release will go out as is the source tree at the
>   end of this month.
> 2. mac-voices works perfectly well as of now with switfmac and mac so no change.
> 3. After this release, I'll be marking servers/mac deprecated,
>   i.e. it'll get no changes unless we can find an owner (unlikely).
> 4. In the version after this one, I'll mark servers/mac obsolete, ie
>   users use it at their own peril and get to keep both pieces when it braks.
> 5. Next year, I'll move servers/mac to the attic, and that will also
>    have given us enough time to see if we need a  separate
>   swiftmac-voices.el
> 
> 
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