[BRLTTY] New release soon.

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hello,

On 2024-09-19 at 06:05 -0400, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
 > So: The current plan is for the next release to happen in roughly two
 > weeks. Would those of you who can, please ensure that you're running the
 > latest development code and do some testing.

I compiled the latest main branch and after brief testing everything seems to
work as usual. I have been running a version of BRLTTY from last June for
several months without any issues.

However, I have (for years already) needed to patch the source to get it
compiling. I am on Arch linux, and I need to apply the following sed script to
get brltty to build:

    # Fix ncursesw header include
    sed --in-place -e 's|^\(#include \)<ncursesw/ncurses\.h>|\1<ncurses.h>|' \
        Headers/get_curses.h

Another sed that I always apply (because BRLTTY does not have a runtime
control for this feature is):

    # Reduce display update rate
    sed --in-place -e 's|^\(#define UPDATE_SCHEDULE_DELAY \)15|\1 75|' \
        Programs/parameters.h

I have planned to write a feature request about all kinds of configurable
power saving features that BRLTTY could provide, but this will be actual only
after the release.

-- 
Aura