Re: More Widespread Adoption of Enchant ...

Since:

1) The original author of the Enchant library has given up on said
    library.

2) You have people like Urmas who is obviously trying to start a
    flame war with me.

3) In general no one sounds really interested in my proposal.

I am going to unsubscribe from this list shortly. If I ever do work on
Enchant I will likely just make the changes my self and try to get them
upstream by submitting bug reports.

If anyone is ever interested in trying to make Enchant the system spell
checker on GNU/Linux and other Free operating systems please contact me
directly.

Thank you.

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Urmas wrote:

> From: "Kevin Atkinson" <kevina@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: More Widespread Adoption of Enchant ...
>
>> [1] Yes I really mean to use the word shoved. Aspell was slowly on its
>> way to becoming the system spell checker than Hunspell---out of seaming
>> no where---suddenly started to take over. I have a very good idea
>> why this is and the whole situation leaves me rather bitter. If anyone
>> really wants to here why I will be happy to elaborate, but such a tail
>> is bound to have a some bias in it.
>
> Well, a person who introduces affix compression in version 0.6 of his
> library, throwing out compounds support in process, uses hard-coded
> paths, writes the code which has a problem with compilers other than GCC
> and does not update Windows version of his library for 9 (nine) years,
> giving some sad unsatisfactory excuses... wonders why his library is
> shadowed with more functional, clean and portable one. Don't you think
> yourself, honestly, that's rather ridiculous?
Received on Fri Sep 23 08:26:06 2011