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

[Rodney Dawes <dobey ximian com>]

I am not sure if it will cause problems. The only place where it is
useful for me, is Red Hat 7.3, since I already implemented packages
for the newer aspell on Red Hat 8.0 and 9, before I knew of this patch.

There seem to be some crashes in 1.0.4 still with the new aspell, so
perhaps we need to fix those first before we put this compat stuff in.

-- dobey

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 12:14, Radek Doulík wrote:
> Hmm, had to do release so it's not in 1.0.4. Please let me know if it
> will cause any problems for 1.0.5
> 
> Cheers
> Radek
> 
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 17:58, Radek Doulík wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 17:35, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 11:23, Radek Doulík wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > This patch shouldn't go into CVS then. All of the new distros use the
> > > new aspell, except for Red Hat. I don't see any reason to put this here,
> > > when it can just be removed in 4-5 months when the next RH release comes
> > > out.
> > 
> > It could help people on older distributions who are compiling packages
> > themselves. I am tempted to use the patch, do you see any problem it can
> > bring?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Radek
> 
> 
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