>>>>> "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Wait a minute. I do not think we want to add all these things to >> our source tree! Please don't do that. Abdelrazak> Is it a disk space problem or a religious issue? We try to avoid hosting code that is not ours because - it indeed takes up disk space - then we are responsible for maintaining it - this is even more important when the code is only used on one platform. Linux and OSX can use the system aspell. There are currently two exceptions that I know of - boost, because it used to be a moving target and we can never be sure that our code will work with system boost. If the situation is better now, we should probably reconsider - gettext, because this is what the GNU standards told us to do. I read somewhere that this stance has changed and that several GNU tools suites stopped doing that. If it is true, we should also reconsider. Concerning the aspell problem, it would be maybe better (for 1.5) to change our code to use Enchant or something like that which is able to use system dictionaries. Instead of distributing modified sources, we can have a patch in our source tree, and provide binaries in ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib. So, I do not know how religious the arguments turns out to be, but as far as I am concerned, it boils down to "avoid trouble" and "let others handle their stuff". JMarc
