On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:42:54AM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson has requested help in porting Pspell to Windows and our
> other platforms. I would really like this to happen since it is clear that
> ispell is a deadend and the sooner we replace it the better.
Yes, yes, yes. Ispell is a mess, and no one understands any of the
ispell code in AbiWord. It's the single slowest part of the startup
of Abi, and no one has any idea how to optimize it, since we don't
know how it work. The code is ugly, and unmaintined, and not that
good. Moving to pspell will be great.
That said, it doesn't work yet. And I don't anticipate it working on
all our platforms for 1.0. So we do need to get ispell working better
for that, unless someone wants to prove me wrong about that.
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