Re: Barbarism implementation proposal

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 01:01:32 EDT

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    On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 00:33, Andrew Dunbar wrote:

    > This is a bad idea. Only ispell dictionaries have
    > these names and I for one hate the ispell naming
    > system. Aspell probably uses different names and
    > lives in different dictionaries. Note that many
    > distros have ispell hashes in places other than where
    > AbiWord probably prefers them. I'm doing some work
    > now to make AbiWord use any ispell hash files it can
    > find. Hopefully I can even make it use a mix of
    > ispell and aspell (and maybe even myspell)
    > dictionaries.

    FYI, most distros patch AbiWord to use their own hash files, or
    configure --with-pspell. Since ispell doesn't have any real standard
    prefix and no good way to determine that prefix at runtime or compile
    time, we might be facing some limitations here.

    Dom



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