On 27/08/2019 Peter Kovacs wrote:
I have seen Matthias in a discussion that moved around the idea to
combine dictionaries and language packs.
Just to make everybody's life simpler and avoid that everybody has to go
the Bugzilla and explicitly search for it, I'll include the direct link
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124473
In the subject named issue, Matthias subscribed to, Andrea states that
this has been discussed with no result.
So we have a confirmed Issue that has no agreed solution. ...
It points no where. http://markmail.org/message/4wefuo43fvnzwirm
Markmail is an external and unreliable source. But the text in my
comment was:
"This has been discussed on the dev list some months ago, but with no
conclusive answer. Anyway, I confirm that at the moment we don't include
dictionaries in Language packs, only in full builds."
And this doesn't mean that people were on opposite sides, just that this
wasn't perceived as a priority and that, if I recall correctly, this,
like many other issues, was left open since nobody had time/resources to
fix it.
Two notes to consider:
1. Bundled dictionaries are included with a specific legal exception.
This would probably extend to language packs, but I'm not looking into it.
2. Including dictionaries in language packs would create the issue of
what to do in some cases. For example, the Italian build contains the
English dictionary. I may install OpenOffice in Italian and then a few
months later a new English dictionary is available and I update the
dictionary. Then I decide to install the English language pack that
still has the old dictionary.
In short, it is not absolutely clear that including dictionaries would
be an advantage for everyone.
Regards,
Andrea.
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