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Re: PFC Aspell (was Re: spell and nano (was reply to cgf about gplviolation))


Seems you beat me to it - I was just about to propose pretty much the same 
thing :)

If you need any help, please feel free to ask :)

rlc

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:

> Moving to cygwin-apps...
> 
> (package for consideration - what is the real abbreviation for this? - the
> OLOCA is missing something here!)
> 
> > I've asked for volunteers for aspell before with the typical resounding
> > silence as a result.
> 
> Okay - i'll make some noise then...
> 
> borrowing from the debian layout...
> 
> http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-bin/aspell-bin-0.50.
> 3-1.tar.bz2
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-bin/setup.hint>
> 
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-doc/aspell-doc-0.50
> .3-1.tar.bz2>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-doc/setup.hint>
> 
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-dev/aspell-dev-0.50
> .3-1.tar.bz2>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-dev/setup.hint>
> 
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/libaspell15/libaspell15-0.
> 50.3-1.tar.bz2>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/libaspell15/setup.hint>
> 
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/libaspell15/setup.hint>
> 
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-0.50.3-1-src.tar.bz
> 2>
> 
> Some notes:
> Aspell is a c++ application - this means both cygaspell-15.dll and
> aspell.exe are huge due to static libstdc++ linking.  I'm thinking this
> could also potentially cause problems - but the program appears functional
> to my limited usage.
> 
> This version of aspell isnt linked against ncurses - I'll look into this,
> but unless someone Knows how to do this,
> 
> Aspell has no man or info files.
> 
> Aspell is just about useless without a dictionary installed
> (I'm looking about to look into packaging aspell-en - the configure script
> isn't a standard configure script)
> 
> aspell comes with two scripts - ispell and spell in /usr/share/aspell
> 
> I dont know anything about aspell - I'm only going to do this so someone
> does rather the no one.
> 
> I can't spell :)
> 
> oh - and this is my first multipackage package - be nice ;)
> 
> hmmm and i just noticed rlc's email messages - if he wants to take these and
> run - yay :)
> 
> Gareth
> 
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