Re: Unofficial channel 'whispers' with services and packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Runciter,

Lots of interesting things in there!

If I could have a wish list of things to integrate in Guix proper, it
would be this:

> * dictd: the original programs for the DICT protocol. Includes the dict
>   client and dictd server, which dico and dicod know how to
>   emulate. Also includes the dictfmt utility, which is useful to express
>   DICT dictionaries from human-written sources or other dictionary
>   formats, for which GNU dico has no equivalent to my knowledge. I'm
>   just the packager not an author.
>
> * freedict-tools: I packaged helper tools to compile the freedict
>   multilingual dictionaries. I'm just the packager not an author.
>
> * freedict-dictionaries: package containing a subset of the
>   freedict-dictionaries, intended for a local installation on a Guix
>   system. I think the subset which I packaged corresponds exactly to the
>   Freedict bilingual dictionaries which are human-written. The Freedict
>   project also has a system which copulates 2 bilingual dictionaries
>   sharing a common language into a third new automatically generated
>   bilingual dictionary, I don't think my package outputs any of the many
>   dictionaries which are expressed by this system. I'm just the packager
>   not an author.

:-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.