On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:43 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> > I think you forget that we don't support MySpell on Win32. We only
> > support ispell atm.
>
> No, I haven't forgotten that. I'd like for us to start using Enchant
> on Win32 - the sooner, the better. But I've been saying that for years
> now. I'd argue that we've never truly "supported" Ispell. We're
> capable of using a small, outdated subset of Ispell dictionaries whose
> build options we've never documented. The fact that Ispell's file
> format is so fragile is regrettable. I wrote Enchant because:
>
> 1) we don't support Ispell
> 2) and the alternatives are better
>
> Besides, I included a link to the code that "documents" the Ispell
> dictionary build options.
For the record: I'm with you 100% that we should use enchant on win32.
Marc
Received on Wed Nov 19 20:28:23 2008
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