Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/02/28/18:34:45
If you read the cygwin-patches list, this message might look
familiar. (Does anyone know of a package that corrects conceptual
errors? :)
Inspired by the recent call for contributors
(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-02/msg01512.html), I
contacted Pierre A. Humblet, who maintains a Cygwin binary of ispell:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A
He kindly gave me the go-ahead to contribute an "official" ispell
package, but expressed the following:
> The things that have kept me back from offering it are:
> a) the Franken site is already well known and the ispell site points
> to it, so users should have no problem finding it.
> b) Cygnus does not have a good mechanism to specify optional
> packages and I already feel burdened having to upload
> optional packages I could do without (turning them off
> each time I upload is a pain). Thus I don't want
> to impose ispell on others.
> c) What dictionaries to include ? (with impact on b))
Given that Cygwin is fairly English-centric at the moment, I plan on
packaging only the American and British dictionaries. I wonder what
will happen when someone offers a German or Spanish or ... package?
In the meantime, I am starting on the instructions for building a
cygwin package
(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2000-11/msg00055.html). Is the /usr
versus /usr/local a hard and fast rule?
I am also looking into the aspell/pspell package as suggested by
Jason Tishler.
Jon
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