Re: [aspell-devel] Re: aspell 0.60.6 on Windows and using libaspell with SciTE

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:

> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > >  -------------- Original message ---------------------- <snip>
> > > > the LyX project has long solved the Windows packaging problem by
> > > > forking Aspell.
> > >  <snip>
> > >
> > >  -------------- Reply ---------------------------------- It may not be
> > >  my place to ask, but why didn't the LyX people submit patches so that
> > >  we could have one aspell that works for Unix and Windows? Gary Setter
> >
> > We of course did that (More exactly Peter Kuemmel did), a long time ago:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1507425&group_id=245&atid=300245

Those where against CVS head and not Aspell 0.60.*.  Probably the main 
reason I didn't take that much interest in them, also you didn't give me 
a clear patch to apply rather a zip file and a bunch of steps to follow.

> You can by the way find the patches for MSVC and Mingw in our svn repo:
>
> svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk/development/Win32/patches/mingw/aspell-0.60.4.patch
> svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk/development/Win32/patches/msvc/aspell-setter-sep06.patch
>
> Joost, are they the latest ones? And by the way, do you still use the 
> original CMake files by Peter? Or something else?
>
> I attach these two patches as they are not too big.

Ok now we are getting somewhere.  These look like there are more than 
compile fixes.  What features are they adding.  I take they are both meant 
to be applied.

> OK, I tried to trigger (again) a discussion about this issue in the hope that 
> the Aspell project would integrate our modification.

I try to look over your patches in the next couple of days.  See above.