[visurfacereader] Future of SurfaceReader
- From: "Tim Burgess" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <visurfacereader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:45:18 +0100
OK,
This is good news from my point of view. The only thing that XP is making
difficult is a rewrite of the speech output module. The intention is to
break this out of SurfaceReader itself so that it can be more easily used in
other projects (both my own and as a freebie tool for other developers who
want to make their applications self-voicing). This rewrite isn't going to
happen any time very soon, so the next version at least will definitely
offer XP support. I'll also ensure that whatever version turns out to be the
last XP-compatible version will continue to be available on the web site for
those that need it.
Best wishes.
Tim Burgess
-----Original Message-----
From: visurfacereader-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:visurfacereader-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Ramm
Sent: 13 August 2014 09:29
To: visurfacereader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [visurfacereader] Re: Future of SurfaceReader
Hi Tim and all
All I need to do here is agree completely with Chip - go for it.
Talk soon
John
At 16:04 12/08/2014, you wrote:
Hi Tim,
My thoughts are that I think when Win 7 first arrived on the sene that most
of us stayed with XP out of compatibility and comfortbility issues. However,
just from what I've been reading around the net on different forums, mailing
list and from my own experience I believe most have at least upgraded to
Windows7. Therefore it is my opinion that if dropping support for XP will
help SR to become more stable and lead to future developments I say do it.
-----Original Message-----
From: visurfacereader-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:visurfacereader-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:34 AM
To: VI SurfaceReader VI SurfaceReader
Subject: [visurfacereader] Future of SurfaceReader
Hi all,
In order to improve the screen-reader handling in SurfaceReader I need to
decide whether or not to continue to support Windows XP. I've provided this
support up to now because a lot of audio users were still using the
platform. However, it definitely introduces more work and issues and if
Microsoft aren't supporting it in terms of security fixes, etc. I really
think it's had its day.
Please let me know your thoughts and I'll make a decision based on feedback.
Best wishes.
Tim Burgess
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