Re: [mh] Release

[David J M. <st...@ci...>]

What a crime that there is no release at summer's end.  That was the plan
since April and all was going to schedule until a couple of people decided
to interfere.

Well, I am still working toward a release (while others are opening up the
candidate source to new XML server initiatives!)

So if you want a released version with all of the updates from the last
three months or so, you will have to get it from my branch.  The SVN branch
is no longer relevant.  As far as I am concerned, it does not exist.
Whatever is in my branch right now is what I am merging with.  I couldn't
care less if it ever gets merged into the "trunk."  The most significant,
extant version of mh lives on my PC (and soon will ooze its way into SVN.)

As I mentioned two months ago, the road to completing this project goes
through IR and X10.  I left out email at the time.  I didn't realize how
broken it was.  We have modules that scan email, but the email transport
breaks down constantly (with no way to recover.)  I also mentioned at the
time that I had a new (better) Web site that would require some work to
merge (if we want to preserve the old ia* sites.)  That's it.

All of this talk about new features is useless right now.  My Web site
leverages what mh already does well (or at least somewhat competently.)  It
is best when it downloads data and formats static Web documents.  It is
unfortunate that many of mh Web scripts format "alphabet soup" hypertext and
tack on base targets, etc.  Fortunately, I rewrote all of them long ago.
Just recently finished up the phone log scripts (which I never used with my
old mh installation) and improved the comics browser.  If you use IA5, there
is no comics browser (just a link to a DailyStrips page!)  There are a
couple of common code modules that are interwoven with the Web scripts (bad
practice) and those obviously have to be updated (my versions normally move
all Web script generation out of the common code.)  How long has this group
been waiting for a decent (and non-frame-based) Web interface?  Who cares
about XML when the HTML is sub-standard.  Of course you can write your own
Web site with another server.  What average homeowner is going to want to
run a stand-alone Web server?!  There is nothing wrong with the current mh
Web server that I haven't already fixed.  It is the worst feature of the SVN
version and the best feature of mine.

Email is a bit of a mystery when looking at the history of this project.
There are several layers built atop email, yet the transport was unfinished.
The pages it created were often illegible as well.  Another thing built on
the email was a module that extracted MIME attachments.  Unfortunately, it
didn't use bimode when it wrote them, so I am sure a lot of those security
videos got corrupted (at least on an XP installation.)  So what was the
point all of these years?  How ridiculous is it that we are discussing new
features when old features don't work and a release is overdue.

IR was no mystery.  It was a mess.  No wonder nobody was doing anything with
it!

Turns out that OMP stuff had some problems exposed by my generic item fixes
(as I predicted back when I uploaded the fixes.)  I didn't want to mess with
those just yet as my Digi board is down (no X10 link at all), but with some
help from Gregg Liming, they are now fixed.  The extraneous PLC's are gone
too.  Made sense to do that one-liner while in there.  I always knew that
was something silly.  Was it ever.  Three billion extraneous X10 commands
later and occupancy is sound.  Users of SVN are in luck on this one as it is
in.  I cringe every time I see one of those SVNers chirping "Updated in
Release xyz", but I was very glad to see that one go in.  Much less glad to
see all of the foibles that went in prior to the fix (bad greps, etc.)  What
the hell was that?

And speaking of the OMP stuff, that was built atop balsa wood too.  CM11
support was so fractured a year or so ago that the OMP layer was useless.
You can't track occupancy with bad checksums!  And of course, groups were a
big drag back then too.  All of these derelict modules were abandoned to go
work on some new gee-whiz abbreviation/acronym of the week.  I think we can
all see where this sort of "strategy" leads (to 2.102.)

Think of my branch as the release candidate.  There is no reason we can't
have a new version (3.0 is what it is looking like) by next month.  We
should have had it a month ago.  I guess the trunk will eventually get a new
release (most likely when it is merged with mine!)

Thank you,
David J Mark
Ohio Media Group


-----Original Message-----
From: mis...@li...
[mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of
Matthew Williams
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:25 PM
To: misterhouse
Subject: [mh] Updates to Voice_Item and audreyspeak


As I wrote a while ago, I've been working on some updates to Voice_Item and
audreyspeak to allow the speech-wav files required for the Audrey to be
generated asynchronously so that misterhouse doesn't pause waiting for the
file to be generated.

It has worked here for quite a while, so I'm committing this as rev 834.

Now, I made changes to not only the Cepstral TTS (the one I use) but to all
TTS engines.  I obviously can't test them all, especially the Windows ones,
so do let me know if you get funny TTS issues.  I'll try to fix these types
of problems ASAP.

By the way, the new code is only activated when specifically requested with
the "async" parm, so it shouldn't change most TTS operations.

Matt
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