On Mon, Feb 03, 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 0.3":
> > In which it knew it could find a new release of the free Hebrew
> > spell-checker, Hspell - release 0.3.
>
> Do you think to file RFE so hspell can be included in the upcoming Red Hat?
> (or in Mandrake, or SuSE)...
Unfortunately I'm a little too busy doing other things on Hspell (and,
obviously, my life does not revolve solely around Hspell) to bother with
RPM-building, Redhat politics and the likes, but I'll be happy if someone
else could take it upon themselves.
I know that Baruch Even already sent Debian an Hspell package (based on
release 0.2), and Yonatan Bokovza created a freebsd package (both supposedly
can be downloaded from the official distribution sites). Oron Peled and
Tzafrir Cohen both created RPMs, but I'm not sure where they published
them (if at all). Obviously I'd be happy if Redhat (or Mandrake, etc.)
would pick up one of these RPMs (or build their own) for the official release.
One thing to notice, however, that in the current releases, the default
"make install" is quite big - as much as 2 MB which in a compressed RPM
will take about 600K. This might bother Redhat.
If, instead, you do "make install_compressed", it uses my own compression
algorithm to bring the whole installation down to only 80K (!), which cannot
be compressed further. The only pentaly you'll incur by such an installation
is that the "-v" option to hspell won't work (which is not a great loss,
because most poeple won't use it anyway).
So if someone wants to "sell" hspell to Redhat, I suppose you'll have better
success if you "sell" the 80K RPM, not the 600K RPM.
A future release (before 1.0) will replace the Perl frontend ("hspell") by
a C one. The C frontend (for which I already have a working algorithm, but
not the whole front-end) will only work on dictionaries compressed using
my algorithm (so the installation will be very small), spell-checker
initialization will take less than 0.1 seconds (compared to 5 seconds now)
and memory requirement will be 1/6th of that of the current "hspell".
Such a release will be easier to "sell". But a release based on this
algorithm will probably not be made before the summer, because at this stage
I still think it is more important to concentrate on the vocabulary - which
is what makes the spell-checker genuinely useful (as opposed to merely
"convenient").
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