[macvoiceover] Re: installing orca on the mac?
- From: Gabe Vega <theblindtech@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:36:10 -0500
1. I don't think anyone ever stated mac os was linux, infact its a
certified unix if you want to get technical about it. I understand the
connection between orca and gnome and believe firmly still being that
gnome runs on a mac I don't see why orca can't eithher using espeak
which wow, is already available native to the mac.
On 3/14/11, Travis Siegel <tsiegel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mac ports are still around (unfortunately). I say unfortunately,
> because things like fink and mac ports makes programmers lazy, and
> they figure if they can use mac ports or fink, then they need not
> make a native osx version, and then we're stuck with an application
> that doesn't work at all with voiceover at worst, or works poorly a
> lot of the time. Native ports are so much better, and often it takes
> only moderate effort to port programs directly to osx instead of
> using crutches like fink or macports. I've done direct ports of
> programs which initially used macports, and I can tell you first
> hand, it's really not that hard, and it prevents users from having to
> install several megabytes of additional crap just to run a program.
> For that reason, I almost always install from source when available,
> because I personally hate with a passion macports, because of all the
> trouble it's caused me in the past.
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2011, at 11:58 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>> fink is still around, mac ports may be another matter though. On
>> Sat, 12
>> Mar 2011, Gabe Vega wrote:
>>
>>> mac ports or fink if fink is still around, or grab all the
>>> dependacies and build the source, its doable to have gnome on the
>>> mac I seen it. but in that same concept and theory if you can
>>> install and run gnome then you can have orca running.
>>> On Mar 12, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Justin Mann wrote:
>>>
>>>> How does one set up gnome on the mac?
>>>> On Mar 12, 2011, at 10:35 AM, ashley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> it might, as it's possible to setup gnome on the mac.
>>>>> ash
>>>>>
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>>>>> On 12/03/2011 13:21, Justin Mann wrote:
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>> I've got a couple of linux based programs that are ported for
>>>>>> the mac. They work in pyton, and I think they use the gtk
>>>>>> toolkit as far as i can tel. Voice over does not work, but is
>>>>>> there a way that I could use orca since the mac has a unix
>>>>>> based kernel? Is it reasonable that if I downloaded the source
>>>>>> it would compile and run on the mac?
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Justin
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