On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 02:28:25PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
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'd rather not speculate - beta2 was released 2013-07-07, beta4 was released 2014-10-24. If there is planned beta7, it may be released after GNU Hurd.
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?
OK.
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.
It's hard to find anything now but AFAIR they hosted besides the software also data, which weren't respecting copyright of original source.
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.
I wasn't afraid before but now it works as FUD from the sf.net side because the lack of information available.
Could you check if you can find more information? It’s in Debian and not on <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG>, which is encouraging.
The file you mentioned looks like from stardict project, but was originally taken from dictd-1.9.7 as it states and during it's history it always had GPL license (started with GPL1). But there are also similarities between stardict-3.0.4/dict/src/lib/mapfile.h and sdcv-0.5.0-beta4-Source/src/mapfile.hpp and that is missing license in sdcv completely. Further - distance.cpp (GPL) and distance.hpp (no license in header) are probably related among projects. Lets scratch it whole, I'm not laywer. When there is webkit package, I may give a try to GoldenDict. S_W
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 for the fixes. S_W
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