Thanks much for the suggestions, no, we haven't talked with these teams. All these products mentioned here are extremely widely used cross-platform solutions in their respective areas, sourced from the upstream communities to put in OpenSolaris, due to their very cross-platform nature, I think this case makes little difference to these products.
(This is not to escape from the project team's responsibility to communicate with the stakeholders, but in this specific instance stakes are extremely low for them.) Suresh Sebastien Roy wrote: > 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 > > >
