Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Re: Monet Update

[Robert J. Slover]

On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Jason White wrote:

> Marcelo Yassunori Matuda <address@hidden> wrote:
> > But there are kinds of differences that would not be solved with a
> > unified tree. GnuSpeechCLI and GnuTTSServer (OSX) are not the same
> > program.
>
> True, although based on the discussion last week, I think the  
> intention was to
> investigate building the speech server daemon under GNU/Linux, with  
> the
> principal question being whether the distributed object APIs were  
> available,
> and sufficiently compatible, to make this possible.
>
> My main concern about having two trees is the extra maintenance  
> burden for the
> developers, hence the question raised.
>
> Thank you to all who are working on this project.

I believe the question raised about Distributed Objects came from  
Dalmazio.  As far as I know, the GNUStep DO implementation is complete  
and functional.  The only incompatibility I know of is on-the-wire  
binary compatibility, since the Mac OS X NSPortCoder binary layout is  
not documented.  This means a GNUStep DO implementation can't vend  
objects to Mac OS X, and vis-versa.   Also, if I recall correctly,  
GNUStep DO is only enabled between objects on the same machine by  
default -- you need to specifically enable support for objects vended  
across the network (a security feature), though I shouldn't think  
either feature (binary compatibility or network distributed objects)  
would be needed by a TTS server.

HTH

--Robert