On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes<lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > BH <bewih...@gmail.com> writes: >> I didn't: they were put there when I installed cocoAspell: >> http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/. I'd expect most users would get aspell >> that way unless we supply it for them. > > I do not really understand why you use cocoAspell. AFAICS, this is > mainly useful to make the aspell dictionaries available to the Mac > services. If all we want is an aspell library, it is enough to get it > from macports ("port install aspell", or something like that). > > This does not tell me how to make sure that we link against the static > version of libaspell, of course.
I guess I'm not being clear. The only reason I use cocoAspell is because right now that's what I think most users are doing, so that I can be helpful when problems crop up. (Most users won't have developer tools installed, and so macports is not an easy option for them.) Of course, it's trivial to install aspell. (Macports installs it with dynamic libs, but it can be done directly from the source.) The only thing I'm uncertain of is how to compile it as universal, but I take it that's not hard. So if we can bundle static libaspell into LyX.app (along with some dictionaries or a way to get dictionaries automatically -- which I could probably do with the installer), can we ensure that LyX will use it? Bennett
