Maintaining KSpell

[Roger Larsson]

On tisdagen den 22 juli 2003 13.36, Laurent Montel wrote:
> Le Monday 21 July 2003 23:12, David Faure a écrit :
> > On Monday 21 July 2003 22:55, Zack Rusin wrote:
> > > Ave,
> > >
> > > while fixing KSpell last week I noticed that it's pretty much
> > > unmaintained and it's been like that for over a year. Laurent was
> > > mostly the one who was working on it lately, but unfortunately he
> > > doesn't have the time to be maintaining on it and David doesn't respond
> > > to emails.
> >
> > Me?
>
> No David Sweet <dsweet at kde.org> :)
>
> > > Therefore, hopefully with everybodies blessing, I'll take
> > > the maintainer position of KSpell and try to close most of the
> > > bugs.kde.org reports for it before we'll release 3.2. Any objections?
> >
> > Surely not :)
> >
> > But please have a look at koffice's libkospell (by Laurent).
> > The goal is to have a lib that can interface
> > * libaspell (preferred if a dictionary for the requested language is
> > installed) * ispell and aspell binaries, like kspell does.
> > The point is that you get much better performance when using a lib
> > instead of a separate executable, and more features too.
>
> Yes new kospell which is koffice/lib/kospell is an improvment of kspell.
> Now we can use aspell/hspell/ispell/libaspell.
>
> With this new lib we can change language in dynamic.
> We can reverse search (top-> bottom and bottom->top )
>
> I must fix again this lib (for koffice-1.3) because there is a bug with
> ispell.
> Ispell is not launched, I don't understand.
> I will try to work on this week.
>
> But it's not BC with old API :((((

Would it be possible to make a BC wrapper to the new lib?
Or are there features missing?

>
> > The idea behind libkospell is/was to replace kdelibs's kspell at some
> > point (AFAIK the API is pretty much the same). This is all I know, better
> > ask Laurent for details.

/RogerL

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Roger Larsson
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