---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hasso Tepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03-Feb-2006 13:33 Subject: Re: Bug#351023: well... To: Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > For that I agree and now is a good time to start migrating. FYI, > according to Harri Pitkänen, hunspell is already the default in Open > Office 2.0.2, which is scheduled for release in a few weeks. As a > user, you can help by filing wishlist bugs on all your other favorite > applications that currently use either aspell, gnomespell, ispell or > myspell, requesting that spellchecking be migrated to hunspell. Hunspell has one huge disadvantage - it doesn't provide shared library. And API for using from external applications is somewhat limited as well - how can I get the list of supported languages for example? Ie. what dictionaries are installed? So, there is two options - maintain the copy of hunspell (like OOo does) or use hunspell binary. Both options are ugly. See http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kspell2/plugins/ how easy is to implement spelling with aspell and how many ugly code is there for ispell. -- Hasso
