Maintaining KSpell

[Laurent Montel]

Le Wednesday 23 July 2003 13:25, Roger Larsson a écrit :
> 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?

We can't :(((
There is a lot of changes.
Not possible to make it BC.

Regards.

> > > 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