Tomáš Čech <sleep_wal...@gnu.org> skribis: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:39:49AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>Tomáš Čech <sleep_wal...@gnu.org> skribis: >> >>> * gnu/packages/dictionaries.scm (sdcv): New variable. >> >>You pushed it already but I have some comments anyway: > > Oh, I took that there are no objections already. Sorry about that.
That’s OK, I just happened to have comments. ;-) >>> +(define-public sdcv >>> + (package >>> + (name "sdcv") >>> + (version "0.5.0-beta4") >> >>The policy is to provide only stable versions, unless there’s a very >>good reason to do otherwise. Could we use the previous version until >>0.5.0 is out? > > Previous version of this tool is 0.4.2, which is 8 years old, it won't work > with recent compilers (it's their statement, not my experiment though), could > suffer with allignment issues on more exotic architectures (ARM among them). Sounds like a good reason. “beta4” suggests 0.5.0 will soon be released though, no? > I can add comment with the reasoning. Yes please. >>> + (synopsis "Command line variant of StarDict") >> >>Could you change it to be self-contained–i.e., without referring to >>StarDict (which I don’t know, and perhaps is not very well known.) > > sdcv stands for - StarDict Command line Variant > This is where I took the synopsis from. > > It's hard to believe that you have never heard of StarDict. I'm not > aware of any offline sotfware dictionary software which does not > support StarDict dictionary format and doesn't state it's relation to > stardict - be it GoldenDict, QStardict or this sdcv. What I have heard of doesn’t really matter–hopefully I’m not the only user of this. ;-) Anyway, “StarDict-compatible command-line dictionary program” maybe? Now that I try to learn about StarDict, I stumble upon this at <http://stardict.sourceforge.net/>: The original StarDict project has recently been removed from SourceForge due to copyright infringement reports. And at <http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/>, sdvc describes itself as the “console version of [the] StarDict program”, which is not confidence-inspiring. Some files such as dictziplib.cpp do indeed seem to come from StarDict. Could you check if you can find more information? It’s in Debian and not on <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG>, which is encouraging. > Is this satisfactory?: > "Sdcv is command line dictionary utility with support of StarDict “with support for the StarDict” > dictionary format. For word in one language it can find translation > in all installed dictionaries at the same time and without specifying > original language. What about “It can translate words from any language to any other language for which a dictionary is available.”? > With proper dictionary it can also work as encyclopedic dictionary." “can also work as an encyclopedia” Thanks, Ludo’.
