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[aspell-devel] Help Save Aspell From being Removed from Fedora!
From: |
Kevin Atkinson |
Subject: |
[aspell-devel] Help Save Aspell From being Removed from Fedora! |
Date: |
Mon, 5 May 2008 04:18:01 -0600 (MDT) |
[This is a part rant, but posting anyway to hopefully get some feedback]
Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary it looks
like Aspell is in real danger of being completely removed from Fedora in
favor of standardizing every applications to use one Spell Checker for
every language. Even if it is not the best spell checker for the
language. For the English language I strongly believe Aspell is the best
spell checker. I'm afraid that other Linux distributions may follow suit
and Aspell may become completely unused, even though it is the best spell
checker for the English language.
More generally I believe standardizing on one spell checker is short
cited. While I agree it is stupid to have multiple dictionaries for the
same language installed, I believe it is even stupider to only use the
same spell checker for all languages to avoid this problem. Instead the
best spell checker for a given language should be used for all
applications using something like Enchant
(http://www.abisource.com/enchant/).
If anyone on this list have used Fedora 9 or are more in tune with Fedora
development I would like to know.
1) How likely is it that Aspell will be removed from future releases.
2) What if anything can be done about it. Is there anyone I can contact
to convince them to make Aspell the default for the English language
when at all possible.
3) Am I overreacting.
- [aspell-devel] Help Save Aspell From being Removed from Fedora!,
Kevin Atkinson <=