Re: More Widespread Adoption of Enchant ...

Hi Kevin,
As Martin has mentioned, we had a Google Summer of Code student (still
working on Enchant). He might be able to share his thoughts, I
suggest.

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Individuals do not represent the community. AbiWord values your
proposal and thoughts as much as that of others. You can safely ignore
the unproductive communication over the mailing list/s.

>
> 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.

I haven't got much time lately to read the thread. Pls hold on.
Unsubscribing from a list, just for your proposal not being welcomed
yet is totally unnecessary. These mails are archived, so your proposal
has indeed added some value already.

Have a great day.
Regards,
Pradeeban.

>
> 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?
>
>

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