Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Thank you all for the feedback, Indeed the summary was a bit misleading, I forgot to change it after I listed the packages. I fixed it now. I also added that maintainers should decide which spellchecker they prefer and migrate to that one (hunspell is not mandatory). On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 9:48

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

> On 28 May 2023, at 15:44, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Hunspell does not have a functionally-equivalent C++ API. It has a C++ API of > its own, but it's targeted at applications that come with their own language > dictionaries. Its C++ API is, basically, a lookup function against a > diction

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I have one package in Fedora. It uses aspell's C++ API. > > Hunspell does not have a functionally-equivalent C++ API. Then use Enchant2, as already suggested. It has a C (enchant.h) and a C++ (enchant++.h) API. Or if it is a Qt/KDE application, just use Sonnet. > it do

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Peter Oliver wrote: > If we’re going to recommend migration to anything, shouldn’t it be > enchant2? Users would be able to configure their preferred spellchecking > engine per language (which I imagine is more important for some languages > than others), and we wouldn’t have to go through this ag

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

ijaaskelai...@outlook.com wrote: > What are Finnish users supposed to do once aspell-fi retires? As I understand it, the only spellchecker the Finnish spellchecking community supports is Voikko. Unfortunately, upstreams have been reluctant to add support for a single-language spellchecking libra

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Mattia Verga via devel writes: I'd also like to raise attention to what I think is a misleading Change Summary: > Deprecating aspell package because it is no longer > Required/Buildrequired by any package in Fedora. This is clearly not true, as the change is about migrating package to another s

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Il 27/05/23 11:56, Peter Oliver ha scritto: > > If we’re going to recommend migration to anything, shouldn’t it be enchant2? > Users would be able to configure their preferred spellchecking engine per > language (which I imagine is more important for some languages than others), > and we wouldn

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Lukas Javorsky writes: Hi, I would like to announce the Fedora change for the deprecation of the aspell package [1]. This package has a dead upstream and has been obsoleted (in most occurrences) by the hunspell package [2]. http://aspell.net/ does not seem to be dead to me. This is a

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

On Fri, 26 May 2023, Lukas Javorsky wrote: I would like to announce the Fedora change for the deprecation of the aspell package [1]. I would be sad to lose Aspell, since it outperforms Hunspell, at least for English (http://aspell.net/test/cur/). This package has a dead upstream and has bee

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

What are Finnish users supposed to do once aspell-fi retires? ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 02:30:09PM +0200, Lukas Javorsky wrote: > This package has a dead upstream and has been obsoleted (in most > occurrences) by the hunspell package [2]. Oh no! I will have to update my joerc! And remember how to update my joerc! Thanks for the notice! -- Matthew Miller F

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Thanks, Miro for the correction. I totally forgot the BuildRequires, I've already updated the list. On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 2:45 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 26. 05. 23 14:40, Lukas Javorsky wrote: > > Sorry for the wrong URL of the change. This is the right one [1]. > > > > [1] https://fedorapr

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

On 26. 05. 23 14:40, Lukas Javorsky wrote: Sorry for the wrong URL of the change. This is the right one [1]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 2:30 PM Lukas Javorsky

Re: Deprecation of the aspell package

Sorry for the wrong URL of the change. This is the right one [1]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 2:30 PM Lukas Javorsky wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to announce the Fedora change for the deprecation of the > aspell package [1]. > > This pac