[IAEP] Tech roadmap

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you run into any specific issue?

It has been a while, but I had some issues with lack of introspection
support with some pad stuff... will look again over the weekend.

-walter

>
> On Wednesday, 6 November 2013, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Clock, Speak, and part of Memorize use gstreamer just to do text to
>> > speech.
>> > I would like to have tts provided by Sugar as a service, probably using
>> > dbus
>> > and a api in sugar-toolkit-gtk3. That would simplify these activities
>> > and solve
>> > other problems we have, like by example the keep the language names
>> > translated
>> > and updated in every place.
>>
>>
>> I've had a few false starts trying to port Measure to GST 1.0. Once I
>> get that working, Turtle Art will follow (that is why I still haven't
>> released the GTK 3 version of Turtle Art).
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> >
>> > Gonzalo
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> I forgot a note about toolkits
>> >>>
>> >>> * The gtk2 toolkit is deprecated and frozen but it will be supported
>> >>> as long
>> >>> as possible (at some point I guess some dependencies might start
>> >>> disappearing from distributions, making that problematic). The gtk3
>> >>> toolkit
>> >>> is supported, backward API compatibility is guaranteed, it's not going
>> >>> to be
>> >>> deprecated in the foreseable future. The web toolkit is experimental,
>> >>> we
>> >>> provide no API guarantee yet, when it's mature it will be the
>> >>> preferred way
>> >>> to write activities (because of cross platform compatibility).
>> >>
>> >> The other one to add to this list is gstreamer. At the moment we have
>> >> some support for gstreamer 1.0 and some (mostly gtk2) Activities still
>> >> using gstreamer 0.10. The 0.10 release will be disappearing sooner
>> >> rather than later (I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in
>> >> F-21/F-22 time frame). I would love to see us be able to remove the
>> >> dependency on two gst stacks, at the moment at least Clock, Speak,
>> >> Record and Memorise need to be converted from gstreamer-python / gst
>> >> 0.10 to gst 1.0 with Introspection support, whether this requires
>> >> migration to gtk3 at the same time is unknown to me.
>> >>
>> >> Peter
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>> Walter Bender
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> --
> Daniel Narvaez
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