On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > On 28/12/2015 20:31, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > >For example, the Mozilla dictionary only knows "zucchini", whereas the > >add-on dictionary also knows "Zulu" and other words starting with "zu". > >I'd hate to think that we'd need to create 7265 bugs to add all the > >missing words. > > OK, I was wrong, this is more confusing. The respective files are not > sorted, so Zulu is in fact in the Mozilla version. The difference in numbers > is not only due to more words but also to different affix rules. > > However, after sorting I was able to spot a few words the Mozilla version is > lacking: > residuary reproachfulness relict reformism enforceability makefile lycopod > (I'm using a en-GB dictionary while writing this post, and all the words > listed above are actually in that dictionary, with the exception of lycopod > which should be lycopodium). > > Looking for en-US.dic files on my system, I can see that for Thunderbird 31 > a dictionary that was slightly bigger than the current one was shipped, and > this dictionary included residuary reproachfulness relict enforceability, so > I wonder how that got lost. > > I think I've made my point: We're investing time and effort to ultimately > ship an inferior product. Mozilla should leave the maintenance of dictionary > to a third party.
We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... we're essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer upstream versions, which is time and effort on its own. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
