From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from beaver.sibername.com ([64.15.155.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I1DxN-00052j-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:07:41 -0400 Received: from [24.226.69.225] (helo=tenstac) by beaver.sibername.com with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1I1DxL-0005MM-33 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:07:39 -0400 Message-ID: <009b01c7b3c2$48c16650$ab00a8c0@tenstac> From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070619000959.GD7821@rednote.net><52938F2E-A4FC-4359-8A91-ABEA142454F4@softcon.com><001a01c7b3b5$3e6dbc60$ab00a8c0@tenstac><006701c7b3ba$a64335e0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> <88342A42-0DD8-4A87-A533-0211EF952523@softcon.com> Subject: Re: TTSynth Is Available Again Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:09:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - proficio.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:07:42 -0000 IBM Alpha Works ... Attracts you like a bug to lamp and then you get zapped. A constant stream of cool stuff that you invest time in that you can't do anything with because you can't distribute, and then they pull the plug on it and work on some other "alpha" works. They probably did it that way to make it smaller. The tts engine was small but the recognition engine was not. If every program on your linux distro included the glibc statically, would be a tad redundant. Look at how big the animal actually is. I needed 800MB to build glibc from source! Travis wrote: > Why would they distribute such a prog and not distribute it as a > truly static linked binary? > Wouldn't that prevent future problems? > Just silly.