On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:22, F J Franklin wrote: > > Martin Sevior wrote: > > > I've been thinking about this. This issue is pretty common on IRC. Now > > > that we have code to automatically download spell files, could we go one > > > step further and upload apsell files to sourceforge and make downloader > > > clever enough to know if it should download an aspell or ispell hash? > > I seem to have missed this post, but anyway. > > AbiWord only supplies it's own hashes because ispell's hashes are so > disgustingly platform-dependent and because pspell wasn't ported to > Windows - I don't know if the latter is still true of GNU aspell.
GNU aspell didn't work on Windows, according to aspell.net and its maintainer, Kevin Atkinson, until like just the other week. Right now it should compile. Hopefully it also "works", but he's hesitant to think so. See more here: http://aspell.net/aspell-win32.txt Dom
