From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 11:22:40 EST
> Martin Sevior wrote:
> > I've been thinking about this. This issue is pretty common on IRC. Now
> > that we have code to automatically download spell files, could we go one
> > step further and upload apsell files to sourceforge and make downloader
> > clever enough to know if it should download an aspell or ispell hash?
I seem to have missed this post, but anyway.
AbiWord only supplies it's own hashes because ispell's hashes are so
disgustingly platform-dependent and because pspell wasn't ported to
Windows - I don't know if the latter is still true of GNU aspell.
Dictionaries are best left to distributors, and some distributions
(NetBSD does, or did) patches its AbiWord to use system ispell hashes.
Ideally AbiWord should cope with arbitrary hashes - wasn't hippietrail
working on that recently?
The abispell package causes much confusion. I would hate to cause even
more by adding pspell to the mix.
Anyone know - does GNU aspell compile on QNX & Windows these days?
Curious, Frank
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