One thing I'd like to note on this matter as a dictionary maintainer is that even though I see a great sense in having different spelling engines which can compete in quality for particular languages I see no value in having multiple dictionary formats. Long time ago it was only ispell, then ispell and aspell, then ispell, aspell and myspell/hunspell (even though the first one fades away). The problem as I see in aspelll currently is of two parts:
1. Architecture-dependent dictionaries, I see really no reason in making dictionary arch-dependent, and to keep users updated on the dictionaries I have to create one for each architecture or let them compile it (which for end users is not quite nice). So until recent time I had to generate a lot of files for each new version just to make sure users don't have deal with compilation. 2. No win platform support, it seems that this problem was part of why big projects (OOo and FF) went the other way for hunspell. So now all primary users of the dictionary I support are going for hunspell dictionary thus (even though for now both are generated from the same source) my attention goes more the non-aspell way :) Comparing that to distribution of hunspell: just one zip file with two text files for any platform/OS (and potentially just repackaing for .rpm or .xpi) and you can do the math. I haven't done any comparison of these engines for Ukrainian language but I feel like these two problems will outweight potential speed gain or better suggestions aspell may have. Regards, Andriy 2008/5/6, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > Kevin Atkinson wrote: > >> > >> [This is a part rant, but posting anyway to hopefully get some feedback] > >> > >> Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary it > >> looks like Aspell is in real danger of being completely removed from > >> Fedora in favor of standardizing every applications to use one Spell > >> Checker for every language. Even if it is not the best spell checker > >> for the language. For the English language I strongly believe Aspell > >> is the best spell checker. I'm afraid that other Linux distributions > >> may follow suit and Aspell may become completely unused, even though > >> it is the best spell checker for the English language. > >> > >> More generally I believe standardizing on one spell checker is short > >> cited. While I agree it is stupid to have multiple dictionaries for > >> the same language installed, I believe it is even stupider to only > >> use the same spell checker for all languages to avoid this problem. > >> Instead the best spell checker for a given language should be used > >> for all applications using something like Enchant > >> (http://www.abisource.com/enchant/). > >> > >> If anyone on this list have used Fedora 9 or are more in tune with > >> Fedora development I would like to know. > >> > >> 1) How likely is it that Aspell will be removed from future releases. > > > > FYI, considering that LyX still depend on aspell, I don't think this > > will happen soon. > But I just checked and it seems that LyX is not in the default feature > list :-/ > > Abdel. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aspell-devel mailing list > Aspell-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel > _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
