On 3/14/2010 3:58 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Forget about Enchant on Windows it brings in gtk dependency and we don't
want to maintain that. I've specifically introduced libhunspell so that
we can reuse OpenOffice and/or Firefox dictionaries. I have created an
hunspell MSVC solution to generate a dll a while ago, I will send that
to you privately. Or we can port that to CMake, more on that later.
Great, thanks. So I can link to hunspell with CMake?
Last time I checked (long time ago) cmake didn't work with my gettext
DLL. This should be fixed now, right? So then it's indeed time to switch
to CMake for the Windows releases.
Or LyX could directly use those installed dictionaries if they are
already installed. We should have this dictionaries detection in the
NSIS script for initial installation and/or in the configure script
(better). This way, we can just tell the user to install the firfox
addon and run reconfigure again and voilà, no need to maintain this
anymore :-)
I was thinking about creating a wizard that installs an OpenOffice
dictionary extension in the LyX dictionary folder. The extensions seem
to be simple zip files.
Not everyone uses Firefox or OpenOffice, so I think we should not rely
on the dictionaries installed by other applications.
That sounds very good. Additional point: except for Uwe, we all use
CMake, not Scons; it's very easy to tell CMake to put compiled files in
some common directories. Also CMake has NSIS integration when used with
Cpack, which can also be used to generate zip files. So please it would
be a good time to standardize Windows developper (and MAC too!) on CMake.
I agree. There's no need to maintain both SCons and CMake and I think
CMake will be the best option.
Joost
