On Jun 25, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: > On 19.06.2012 09:17, Andre Fischer wrote: >> On 19.06.2012 05:07, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> there have been some reports of users complaining that the Thesaurus >>> does not work. > > [...] > >>> As this bug has its root in the dictionary extensions, the only thing we >>> can do to fix it is just provide only one extension, in this case >>> dict-en.oxt. >> >> Dropping the other english dictionaries is a good idea for other >> reasons, too. Issue 119272 >> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119272) describes the >> problem of all dictionaries using more than 160MB, most of this are the >> large thesaurus files. Including only one english dictionary would >> reduce this number considerably. Besides, it contains support for most >> variants of English anyway. > > I would like to go forward on this but am not sure that we reached consensus. > Are there still concerns about this? If nobody complains in the next 72 > hours then I will remove all English extensions except dict-en.oxt for both > the standard English version and the British English version. > > See also issue 120033 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120033) > for details.
My concerns are answered. Users of the released versions will suffer no ill effects. Please include detail about this change in the release notes for version 3.4.1. Thanks & Regards, Dave > > -Andre
