Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH] Allow gnome-spell to work with pspell 0.12.x in addition to aspell 0.50

[Radek Doulík <rodo ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 17:11, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 10:53, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > We should probably make gnome-spell just use the pspell interfaces, and
> > in aspell 0.50, just use the pspell compat layer. This is what Abiword
> > does, and it works very nicely. 
> 
> Actually, moving towards using the newer interfaces as much as possible
> is the right direction.  But due to the variety of problems with
> dictionaries and the like, providing a compatibility layer for a while
> until the newer aspell is actually deployed everywhere eases
> transitions.  If everyone says "let's just use the pspell compat layer",
> then the time for switching is just postponed until the aspell
> maintainer pulls that (whether due to wanting to add interfaces that
> would break it or just not wanting to maintain it any longer).  If
> you're already using the new interface when that happens with a fallback
> for people using older versions, then you're ready and don't have to
> worry about it.  And in a year or two when no one is using pspell 0.12
> anymore, you just kill the compatibility layer in gnome-spell.

yeah, I would also rather keep using aspell interface instead of
pspell(compat) one which will be probably deprecated at some point.

Radek

> Also, even if you go that route, it does nothing to help the fact that
> aspell has changed its dictionary naming with 0.50 from the form en-US
> to en_us.  
> 
> > For packages, the aspell-<lang> packages
> > should provide aspell-dictionary, and anything that needs to use the
> > pspell/aspell combo should depend on aspell-dictionary >= the version
> > of pspell/aspell that it was linked against. In the case of pspell 0.12,
> > the packages should depend on aspell-dictionary >= 0.33.7.1 and
> > aspell-dictionary < 0.50. This will make sure the proper versions are
> > installed, at least according to the packaging system, which is all that
> > should matter in our worlds anyway. :)
> 
> As far as I can tell, this has no bearing on the patch.  But FWIW, you
> probably just want to have your aspell packages depend on
> aspell-dictionary and not every aspell using package.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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