Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Mer 21 mai 2008 18:13, Kevin Hendricks a écrit : > >> Mac OSX has a dictionary server. I would bet Windows probably does as >> well. >> It would not be that hard to convert hunspell/libhypthen/thesaurus >> code to >> be a standalone server (localhost ports only) server project for >> Linux and Solaris, and etc. > > Linux systems are already sharing dictionnaries at the system level by > just linking interested apps to a system hunspell library that uses a > system dictionary store. The server indirection is not needed when you > can rebuild all your apps against a single library. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/ReleaseSummary#head-2503bdbbc42cf79461b6b0d37e5da9aec3e3fbd5 > > Solaris will probably do the same eventually. It uses pretty much the > same application set. > > Thus the turn-dicts-in-extensions focus seems a windows-only concern, > with every other platform going the other way.
You would have a point if we had "turd-dicts-in-extensions-only". But that isn't true. OTOH we needed a good solution for the 80 or 90% majority of our users that don't use Linux. I think we will get a "best for both worlds" solution at the end. I'm sure. :-) 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]
