[Tux4kids-discuss] Tux4kids-discuss Digest, Vol 87, Issue 1

[LM]

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 8:00 AM,
<tux4kids-discuss-request at lists.alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>
> As for abandonware, there has been some development, mainly by Nalin, who added?
> braille support in GSOC 2013 and Laura who has been adding support for SDL2.
>
> What is needed is somebody that steps in and integrates the Laura's patches?
> and puts out a release.
>
That would be helpful.  We could also use some testing of the SDL2
additions and other modifications on the various platforms Tuxmath
supports.  I have Nalin's patches included in my patches.  However,
he's made some further modifications since then and changed from using
espeak directly to using another library which can work with espeak or
other text to speech libraries.  I don't have those changes
incorporated in my modifications and due to dependencies needed to
build the other library, don't plan to use them.  It was a pretty big
nuisance just to get the espeak library functioning on Windows.  I'm
attempting to test my build scripts and modifications on Debian as
well, but haven't had enough time to do any thorough testing.

I have a build of Tuxmath on Windows, but still need a good way to
distribute the executable and multiple DLLs and fully comply with the
GPL license (which requires source and build instructions to be made
available).

I also hope to work on Tuxtype at some point and get it working with
SDL2 and with better integration for the t4k_common library.  However,
I have not had much time at all to work on software due to an illness
in the family.  Will continue to work on Tuxmath as time allows and
hope to be able to do more work on it and Tuxtype some time in the
future when my schedule isn't so hectic.

> Maybe even we could do a release with the Braille support, which is already?
> integrated and later go for SDL2.

I think Nalin's changes are already in version control.  If you just
want to start with a Braille update, you may just need to build a
release from them/update the release information.

Testing before the final release is also very important.  I've noticed
a number of bugs in Tuxmath.  I've corrected some, but I'm sure there
are always more.  Finding and fixing them to provide a stable product
is key.  If the program is buggy or crashes a lot, users won't want to
continue to use it or won't update from their older versions.

Sincerely,
Laura