David Lowe wrote:
On May 17, 2008, at 13:29 , Drew Jensen wrote:
which also gives the ability then for the dictionary publisher to
automate distribution of updates to the files
This thought presumes that there is a "dictionary publisher", i.e.
somebody with the inclination and time to maintain dictionaries. The
scientific ones that i've seen were just knocked together to
accomplish a job and then released as is. I well imagine these people
don't want to, and shouldn't have to, maintain or 'publish'
dictionaries. They've done their job and given us the dictionary.
Anybody who insists the dictionary format change to accomplish their
own goals then bears the burden of doing the conversion themselves
[or, as Michael Adams said, provide a fully automated tool to do the
conversion].
I understand your point - and I need to add that I;m jut going off of
what I see inside the dictionary oxt files...no inside information on my
part...but if it is as it appears then creating the "loader" is going to
be a really simple process. For example the extension
BasicAddonBuilder.oxt is a basic addon that allows you to package a
starBasic library as an extension, along with ( if you want ) custom
menus, toolbars and the like, with hardly anything more then a few
point-n-click steps. Assuming dictionaries are really going to need to
be packaged as oxt files I would be hard pressed to not believe that
someone will put out the same type of tool in short order - it should be
even easier to build actually.
But - CAVEAT - I don't know really, I opened my mouth though, so I
suppose I should try and see what I can find out about it...
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