Re: More Widespread Adoption of Enchant

From: Kevin Atkinson <kevina_at_gnu.org>
Date: Wed Sep 14 2011 - 02:52:09 CEST

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Urmas wrote:

> From: "Kevin Atkinson" <kevina@gnu.org>
> Subject: More Widespread Adoption of Enchant ...
>
>>
>> 2. Convince the Enchant projects (and all distributions using it) to
>> prefer Aspell over Hunspell for the English language.
>
> Aspell:
> Last release date: 22.12.2003
> Hunspell:
> Last release date: 25.06.2009
>
> Surely everyone will be glad to migrate to long abandoned project with one developer.

That comment is completely uncalled for and very distrustful to me.

Furthermore, those dates are bogus. Go to the projects web site to get
the latest dates.

Hunspell: 2011-02-02
Aspell: 2011-07-04

> You may also decide to do something useful and contribute to hunspell instead.

I can go into why I think this is infeasible, and how Aspell is better in
some cases, but something tells me you are not going to listen.
Received on Wed Sep 14 02:52:37 2011

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