Am 25.11.2011 15:16, schrieb Andre Fischer: > On 25.11.2011 14:59, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> On 25.11.2011 10:38, Andre Fischer wrote: >>> Hi Mathias, >>> >>> >>> On 24.11.2011 18:04, Mathias Bauer wrote: >>>> Just a dumb question: why do we think that the dicts are source code? >>>> At least those without patches are distributed without any treatment. >>>> We just package them. So where is the difference between an MPL >>>> library and an MPL .dic file? Just the extension and the encoding of >>>> its content. >>> >>> When we are just packaging them, then why not just provide the ready >>> made extensions and either bundle them or place them on the extension >>> repository. Which, by the way, already contains more spell-checking >>> extensions than the dictionaries module? >> >> Mainly because we package some content from our side together with the >> dic files. That must be done somewhere, and until now it was desired >> that this "somewhere" is inside the OOo build process. > > But what about the extensions in the repository that do not have a > counterpart in the dictionaries module? They have to come from > somewhere, too. I know, that it is a frequently used pattern in OOo to > have at least two ways of doing things. Maybe we can use this occasion > to remove one?
If it was so easy. Having dictionaries in the code repository was a way to make sure that we can provide them even if noone else maintains the dic files and packages them as extensions. I agree that if we had a safe home for all the dictionary extensions it would be easier to use the packages provided from there. The question remains if there is such safe home. Regards, Mathias
