[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Road map
- From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:37:57 +0100
It would be good to see the weels too :)
http://code.google.com/p/brailleutils/
Mesar
On Fri 01/06/12,08:29, John J. Boyer wrote:
> My goal is to make the combination of liblouis and liblouisutdml a
> complete transcription package for braille and tactile graphics. This
> includes dividing a book into volumes and formatting them correctly. I
> view liblouis, liblouisutdml and BrailleBlaster as a single project. As
> I like to say liblouis and liblouisutdml are the Braille transcruotion
> engine. BrailleBlaster is the rest of the car.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 01:52:33PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Some comments on your todos.
> >
> > * Update documentation for JSON test harness: This is something I feel
> > which needs to be done soon, before the next release. What is the format
> > for documentation? I know LaTeX but know nothing of texinfo, is it similar?
> > * Java bindings: My Java bindings have been relicensed to apache2, I
> > believe that is GPL compatible, my main reason was that I felt I could not
> > continue supporting the bindings and so wanted to free them up for others
> > to contribute/develop if they want to. It would be good for me to see the
> > other Java bindings. I currently would be restricted to working on JNA
> > bindings, I don't know any C, except for enough to know how to use things
> > like ctypes in python and JNA in Java.
> > * Again on bindings but I felt needed a separate point: If anyone knew
> > enough about swig then that might be desirable to explore to see whether
> > that would be a better option for different language bindings than doing a
> > specific one for each programming language.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > On 1 Jun 2012, at 13:20, Christian Egli wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > One of the things that I took away from this years FOSDEM was that there
> > > is some benefit for the community of an open source project if there is
> > > a road map.
> > >
> > > So I sat down and figured out what I would like to see done in the
> > > liblouis project, sort of a TODO list, not a road map (yet). This is of
> > > course my personal opinion, others probably have other stuff that they
> > > would like to see, they might also have a more global picture which
> > > might include liblouisutdml, braillebraster, nvda, orca, etc. Anyway the
> > > TODO list is in svn[1] and is IMHO just a draft. It would be good to get
> > > a discussion around it to see what we all deem to be important.
> > >
> > > Possibly we could then turn this into some kind of road map where we say
> > > this and that feature will be in release 2.x or maybe only later in
> > > release 2.x+1.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Christian
> > >
> > > Footnotes:
> > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/liblouis/source/browse/trunk/TODO
> > > --
> > > Christian Egli
> > > Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
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