freature request for ibmtts module

[Halim Sahin]

hi,
Current situation:
Currently sd_ibmtts links against libibmeci and libetidev which are not
free and the distributors can't ship a compiled sd_ibmtts module with
their speechd package.

Suggestion:
There is a ibmtts-sdk available on sourceforge.net which could be used
to create/refactor the sd_ibmtts module.
If the module doesn't link against the libibmeci by dynamically loading
it at runtime (dlopen) the package could be shipped with the
distributions.
Afaik the bsd license is compatible with gpl/lgpl. We could ship the
eci.h file with speechd package and enable the compilation of the module
(at least on 32 bit systems).
The module itself needs to dlopen the libibmeci at runtime and could be
build without having the real working library at compile time.


Please don't answer that this concept will be more unstable etc. Don't
forget that the eci interface isn't new and wmaybe it won't get any
updates in the future.
Unfortunately many people are using it and the mailinglists contain many
questions about how to building ibmtts support in speechd.
What do you think?
BR.
halim