On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 02:08 -0500, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > Project team is not aware of thunderbird/firefox/openoffice binaries > having a private copy of hunspell library. (They may be having hunspell > sources directly compiled in their executables). Even if they do > maintain private copies of the library, it's up to each of these teams > to decide if they would like to link to the hunspell library that this > case provides and forgo their private dependencies.
Maybe so, but I'd suggest that it's your job as a responsible engineer to go talk to those project teams and at least make them aware that you're doing this work. Have you done that? > This project is more oriented towards to cater to new/existing > applications which needs a sophisticated spell checker library, and > tools for dictionary developers for hunspell. Sure, I get that. My point was merely that we should try and avoid including multiple copies of the same software with the system. -Seb
