On 2/13/19 6:24 PM, Levente Polyak via arch-general wrote: >> really? >> >> the section i linked to claims this: >> >> "The espeak speak_lib.h include file is located in >> espeak-ng/speak_lib.h >> *with an optional symlink in espeak/speak_lib.h*. This file *contains >> the espeak 1.48.15 API*, with a change to the ESPEAK_API macro to fix >> building on Windows and some minor changes to the documentation >> comments. *This C API is API and ABI compatible with espeak.*" >> (emphasis >> added) >> >> granted, we have espeak 1.48.04 in [community], but 1.48.15's been >> development status since 2015[0]. i have a hard time imagining that >> 1.48.04's API and ABI have had breaking changes on what seems to be a >> single patch level release, and one four years old at that. >> >> >> >> [0] http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html > > Then I'm sorry to tell you that's indeed the case. > Look at espeak package history, the epoch is > there for a reason. It was tried to be a drop in > replacement before and had to be reverted. > > I still have plans to transform espeak back to the > NG variant, but that needs a bit of time, staging > and planning. For time being you need to accept > it doesn't work that easily. > well that is *incredibly* disheartening and surprising. thanks for the helpful response, levente. -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info
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