[Emacspeak] Re: Announcing Emacspeak 58.0 (ErgoDog)

[Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On May 3, 2023, at 18:00, T.V Raman <raman(a)google.com> wrote:
> 
> :-) and we can push the stock higher by incorporating the Mac server:-)
> My thought is that we pull it in as a git submodule once it's stable.

Soon, I have been using it as a daily driver since my ping to the list, has 
three outstanding bugs I want to get to this weekend, then I will contribute 
it next week.

1. The evil crashing bug in my tone generator is driving me batty, I can not
get a consistent reproducer... I guess I am going to have to go line by line 
and try to use my brain, exhausting... 
2. Chokes on large blocks of text cause I don't chunk it yet, easy to fix.
3. I handle "a" and "s" improperly, I stop all sounds on "s' and I treat "a" 
    like "p" without queueing.
Bonus. Find out the exact minimal xcode install to do local builds.
Double Bonus. Get CI/CD pipeline automatically generating binaries on 
    Github so users can use the fat binaries on x64 and arm64 without 
    needing to install xcode at all. 

After those are fixed, I think it is generally usable, no where near done to 
the level I desire, but a solid daily driver. I really want the split notifications 
and effects back working, and since both of those features require a 
mighty addition of a lot of code, might delay it for a bit.  

One upshot on my religious war agains the MacOS audio subsystem is 
that I have learned a lot about all the ways it is stupid, and I can probably 
double-back to fix the Python server once I  get this one in the hands of 
the general mac users. 

Submodule sounds good, or I am fine with contributing it and just doing 
maintenance PRs on it from my own fork. 

-- 
Robert "robertmeta" Melton