I confess to being subscribed to the aspell mailing list, so I'm
probably the person Kevin is referring to.
Regarding a generic reusable spell checker interface:
I think the specs were already completed in the old discussion...
What remained in that discussion was just the final synthesis
and polishing of the issues, and I thought it was natural that
you did that, since you are the one that offered to implement
this stuff.
Kevin, exactly what do you want us to do?
Restate those specs and resynthesis them into a polished design for you?
Now, that's too easy. We can't do all of the work for you.
What I am willing to do, however, is to critize a synthesis that
you present.
Maybe you are asking for us to restate the specs in a C setting?
If this is what you want, you might want to go elsewhere. The LyX
team is a C++ team, and I think we can admit that we do not have
the necessary expertice in wrapping C++ in a C setting.
Please don't take this as a turn-down. It's not. It's just that,
as Juergen said, we are busy with other stuff that we consider
more important. We all only have so much time.
Take this as it is: An opportunity to use us as a reviewing
facility. After all, we have some expertice in what the perfect
spell checker interface should look like, so this might be valuable
to you anyway.
Let me reiterate that I wish the best for Aspell, because I think
it's a superior technology that should prevail. However, I can't
volunteer much time to make Aspell the world dominator.
Greets,
Asger
