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Re: A question for aspell-dict-XX


Ping
any progress?

Gareth - aspell maintainer in waiting.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <ronald at landheer dot com>
To: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: A question for aspell-dict-XX


> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > >
> > >> I just have a small question while I am preparing these packages: Is
it
> > OK
> > >> to have a generic README for the four packages (and not a ~-en-~;
~-de-~;
> > >> ~-nl-~ and ~-fr-~ which practically the same contents)?
> > >>
> > >> I'm doing a wee bit of hackin' on the generic script to get it to set
the
> > >> packages up correctly - it's getting confused by multiple dashes in
the
> > >> filenames. Would that confuse Setup too or does it use a more
fine-tuned
> > >> way of finding out what the different parts of the filename mean?
> > >>
> > >> (and: is my mail finally coming through or should I use by info at
> > >> rlsystems dot net address to mail here?)
> > >> rlc
> > >
> > > Ronald,
> > >
> > > First off, your mail got through (you can always check the archives).
> > > Second, don't you think the README for various language packages
should be
> > > in that language? ;-)  Otherwise, I think a shared README is fine,
with a
> > > side-effect that if one package is uninstalled, it'll take the shared
> > > README with it...
> >
> > That's not so good. If the README is identical, couldn't it go into the
main
> > aspell package?
> Well.. no. I don't think so: I'm not (and won't be) the maintainer of the
> aspell package and aspell doesn't depend on the dictionaries to work (you
> could easily install aspell and download, say, a spanish dictionary, which
> I won't maintain because I don't speak spanish).
>
> I could, of course, try learning spanish just to have some use for the
> dictionary.. ;) ... nah!
>
> I think I should just rename the README for the language. It's not that
> big and I'll have it include file lists for all four packages..
>
> rlc
>
>
>


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