On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 14:19, Jan Niehusmann <j...@gondor.com> wrote: > Hi Kelly, > > (Cc: to the maintainers of aspell and enchant) > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:18:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Since 0.14, Psi supports Enchant as well as Aspell. I would like to see >> the Debian version built with Enchant instead of or in addition to Aspell. > > I'm not sure about this. What are the advantages of using enchant? > > It seems like the debian package of aspell is more actively maintained > than the enchant one. In fact, the version of enchant packaged is from > May 2008, while there is a newer version (1.5.0) available since May > 2009. > > In comparison, the aspell maintainer did an upload only a month ago. > (Working on the packaging only, it seems, so no real advantages to the > end user. But still, it shows that the package is actively maintained.) > > Of course, these signs may be misleading and enchant may be the better > spellchecking library to use. And there may just be no reason for the > enchant maintainer to upgrade the package, perhaps enchant 1.4.2 is more > stable than 1.5.0. I just don't know. So, if you have good reasony why > enchant is better, please tell me. > > Regards, > Jan >
Well, enchant is an abstraction layer over Hunspell, Aspell, Ispell and others, so people can use whatever works best for them. Also, personal dictionaries can work a little better - if one program uses Hunspell directly and another uses Aspell, (or whatever) the personal dictionaries are not shared, but if all apps uses enchant, they share a personal dictionary while still allowing user choice of spelling systems. Furthermore, it is becoming a bit of a standard - Gnome/GTK use enchant as does KDE (4 at least). Anyway that is my reasoning. Thanks for taking time to respond to my little wishlist bug. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
