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?
You're correct and I received the following information from Jeff Cai: "Currently Enchant included an internal copy of Hunspell 1.2.2 so Enchant can use Hunspell spell checker as a back end. After Hunspell goes into Solaris, the internal copy can be removed from Enchant." The above mentioned applications use Enchant as a unified spell checking interface. I'll work with Jeff to have the Enchant's internal copy of Hunspell removed once this project gets into Solaris. hnhn > >> 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 > > -- Jan Hnatek jan.hnatek at sun.com
