Re: First weekly status report on GNOME Dictionary

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Emmanuele,

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> This is why I was thinking about an "official" dictionary server at 
> gnome.org.

That doesn't sound bad at all- but I really wouldn't know about the 
amount of bandwidth it would generate, especially considering that 
non-GNOME clients could use it too.

> I could write an extensible system, with or without loadable runtime
> modules (I'd prefer without - I'm not a plugin fan); this would allow us
> to support various use cases.

Being able to pass the query to a command line utility and capturing the 
output would probably be enough for the case I described.

regards,

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