[Aspell-user] Need Someone to Maintain Aspell Windows Port

[Kevin Atkinson]

The Windows port of GNU Aspell is extremely out of date.  Unfortunately I 
have no time and very little interest in maintaining a Windows Port. 
Thus I am interested in one or two people who are willing to step up and 
maintain it.  This will involve two parts.

1) Maintain an updated binary of Windows compiled with MinGW, or a recent 
version of Visual C++, such that the binaries will work with Windows 98 or 
better.  In order for me to accept it as an official Windows Port I will 
need to sign off on all the required changes.  This basically means that a 
binary compiled with VC 6 will not work since it simply requires to many 
changes.  However never versions such as VC 7.1 will work since from what 
I understand there are far better in terms of standards compliance than VC 
6 and thus don't require nearly as many changes.  In fact I have several 
patches to this effect that I hope to apply at some point.

2) Rather than creating binary packages for each of Aspell 86 
dictionaries, work with me to create a way to compile and install Aspell 
dictionaries from the source package.  The reason for this is two fold, 
one, the binary dictionaries will require constant effort to be kept up to 
date, and two, there are a significant deal larger than the source 
package.   Since Aspell dictionaries are in a standard format it should 
be possible to do this by examining the contents of the source package and 
in particular the "info" file.  This can be done with out requiring Perl 
or even any Unix tools.  The Aspell binary and preunzip-bin should be all 
it should take.

If you are interested please let me know.