Quite a few of the changes suggested in Adrian Bunk's suggestion list were implemented. Others I didn't understand the criticisms and when I asked did not get definitive answers. Some of the suggestions I didn't understand, I could not figure out how else to implement. I have offered to rewrite sections of the code with help from many people that have offered and have never been able to actually get any help after the offering. I have basically given up on the process because of lack of expertise on my part and lack of assistance on the part of others. I originally worked closely with Alan Cox to get it in and it was mostly there and then Alan and Linus had their falling out and so that ended up slipping down the tubes. I would like speakup to be in the actual kernel code because that would make my job easier maintaining it when someone else changes the kernel code they would have to be partially aware of the speakup code needing to be modified also. As it is speakup works well for the most part and is relatively easy to patch for novices. I am not going to try to get in the kernel code any more unless someone is really willing to help me with the modifications and answer my silly questions when I have them, which is often. I have been moving speakup to git or I should say Daniel Drake has moved speakup to git but it is not ready for prime-time yet. I either have to rewrite the checkout/checkin scripts or move to another system such as quilt. My first looks at quilt have not been overwhelmingly encouraging because of what looks to be lack of documentation or tutorials or something. I can't find anything useful reading wise on the quilt web page. Maybe I have the wrong page who knows but Daniel gave it to me so I suspect it is just sparse. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
