[BRLTTY] Questions about brltty and Orca

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2017/09/06 at 22:40 +0200]

>5) More specifically, I see the README of ORCA v24.0, about the deps:
>* BrlTTY           - BrlTTY support for braille (optional)
>* BrlAPI           - BrlAPI support for braille (optional)
>
>Of course brltty is installed when I build Orca but what BrlAPI
>brings to Orca in addition? 

Orca uses BrlAPI to communicate with BRLTTY. That's why, in order to use Orca, 
you do need to install BrlAPI's shared object and also to install at least its 
Python bindings.

>6) In the same README I see:
>YOU ALSO NEED THE LATEST AT-SPI2, PYATSPI2 AND ATK FOR THE GNOME 3.24.x
>RELEASES.  THEY CONTAIN VERY IMPORTANT BUG FIXES!
>
>However I plan to ship Orca v24.0 but we have atk and at-spi2 at
>version 2.18, with 80 or so packages that depend on those, and
>I have no idea of the backward compatibility of them.
>
>Is it a real issue to continue shipping that? Or is Orca 3.18 good enough?

I don't know. Orca uses those packages to read the graphical screen. I'm sure 
what the Orca people are getting at is use the latest versions of those 
packages because they'll have less bugs than earlier versions. For a specific 
answer, though, I think you'll need to ask the Orca people.

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