Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Mar 2 octobre 2007 09:23, Mathias Bauer a écrit : > >> Sorry for being unclear, I wanted to say something else: if we allowed >> to build and use native packages from the dictionaries contributed to >> OOo easily - would that be what is needed? > > I'm afraid I'm failing to parse there :)
Hm, I know that my sentences tend to become too long at times. Sorry ;-) I thought that if distributors want to create their own packages anyway it might be enough to just give them access to the dictionaries in the OOo repository and make OOo aware of other folders to look for them once installed. No building necessary, no packaging from OOo's side. > You have to realize that for a casual contributor the OO.o site is > very intimidating. You have stuff all over the place, most people just > run away screaming unless they are really motivated. Well, that's the problem if you don't do it yourself. We are struggling with our provider (Collab.net) as well with our website project. It's a annoying and tedious process to get changes through and the developers usually just don't have the time for that. But yes, I don't like our site also. But my influence on it is very limited (and this is true for most of us developers and project leads). But that shouldn't be an issue for getting dictionaries. cvs will be enough for that. >> BTW: having a common understanding amongst distributors about the >> "right" place for dictionaries (FHS?) would help a lot. Does anybody >> know something about this? > > Some distributions use /usr/share/myspell > (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=83017) which while > not totally wrong is not totally right either. > > I'd advice to just propose a root dir under /usr/share/, write it in a > freedesktop spec, and submit it to the FHS after a few years, once > adoption has started. That's nothing I want to get involved in, I just think it would be easier for the users of OpenOffice.org if distributors could stick to a common location. For OOo's future plans it would be enough to make the particular folder(s) of the particular distro known to OOo. Of course this will be an additional configuration setting the distributors had to add to the OOo builds they provide themselves. But that is true for all other applications also: if there is no "predefined" place where dictionaries should be looked for (or a system wide configuration setting that links to it) each distro must tell the folder to the application. As long as the distributors don't define a common folder unfortunately OOo builds provided by others (Sun or e.g. Pavel Janik) must still bundle the dictionaries inside OOo because it's impossible to provide different builds even for the most popular Linux breeds of the day. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
