Subject: Re: Why we can't use ASpell
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 09:32:03 CDT
Quoting Mike Nordell <tamlin@algonet.se>:
> I just had a look at ASpell, thinking of making it compile using MSVC.
>
> No matter what compiler we use we can't use ASpell:
> - It uses templates, we don't allow templates.
> - It uses exceptions, we don't allow exceptions.
>
> Since both of these two are show-stoppers by themselves it's no point in
> going on.
Hi Mike,
This assessment is just plain wrong. While it is true that aspell uses
templates and exceptions, it is not wrong of us to use it (or against our
coding guidelines, either).
We depend on pspell and aspell as shared libraries, which are completely
contained within themselves. The functions that we use from the pspell API do
not throw exceptions or require that we use templates to pass in the arguments.
Dom
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