Jan Niehusmann <j...@gondor.com> writes: > Hi Kelly, > > (Cc: to the maintainers of aspell and enchant) > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:18:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Since 0.14, Psi supports Enchant as well as Aspell. I would like to see >> the Debian version built with Enchant instead of or in addition to Aspell. > > I'm not sure about this. What are the advantages of using enchant? > > It seems like the debian package of aspell is more actively maintained > than the enchant one. In fact, the version of enchant packaged is from > May 2008, while there is a newer version (1.5.0) available since May > 2009. > > In comparison, the aspell maintainer did an upload only a month ago. > (Working on the packaging only, it seems, so no real advantages to the > end user. But still, it shows that the package is actively maintained.) > > Of course, these signs may be misleading and enchant may be the better > spellchecking library to use. And there may just be no reason for the > enchant maintainer to upgrade the package, perhaps enchant 1.4.2 is more > stable than 1.5.0. I just don't know. So, if you have good reasony why > enchant is better, please tell me.
FYI, Aspell isn't really being actively developed upstream any longer. He's still around and answers questions on the mailing lists but no longer seems to do any coding on Aspell. I'm not familiar with Enchant so I can't any offer any comparisons otherwise. -- Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
