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

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