[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Orca needs a recent version of liblouis
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 05:49:49 -0500
liblouisutdml calls many liblouis functions to do translation, look up
tables, etc. It also calls functions such as setDataPath which are not
in versions of liblouis older than about a year. liblouisutdml does not
replace liblouis. It uses liblouis for translation and does formating.
John
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:51:48AM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:> As far as I
know, the version of liblouis orca uses is what the
Linux
> distribution uses. For a distribution like archlinux this would be the
> latest release, for distributions working on a release cycle it could be
> older. Some distributions might backport the python3 bindings, hopefully
> if they did then they would also backport the main library as well.
>
> As for liblouis and BrailleBlaster, I thought BrailleBlaster only
> accessed liblouisutdml calls, or is it that you mean the liblouisutdml
> required by BrailleBlaster makes use of newer liblouis calls?
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 14/05/2012 07:50, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Apparently the current version of Orca is using an older version of
> >liblouis. It does not contain some functions needed by people who wish
> >to test BrailleBlaster with Orca. Hopefully upgrading the Python
> >bindings will also mean upgrading to the latest version of the library
> >as well.
> >
> >John
> >
>
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